Feb 26 Weeks Of Federal Climate Action
Sunny ways, No!
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment meeting in Saint John, N.B. on 1994 June 1 made the following statement. “The Council of Ministers reaffirmed its commitment to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000 and to develop sustainable options to achieve further progress in the reduction of emissions by the year […]
Why Big Central Banks Are Becoming Climate Warriors
By Katia Dmitrieva The world’s largest central banks are getting louder about climate change risks, and some of them are even starting to do something about it. Melting glaciers can seem like a big leap from monetary policy, but some banks say they have to respond to warming that has the potential to disrupt economies globally. […]
Mark Carney, named UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, says the smart money is on transition from fossil fuels
“Every major company needs to have a strategy for net-zero,” says Mark Carney, the next UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. In conversation with The Sunday Edition’s host Michael Enright, Carney stressed that citizens in countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom have agreed, through their elected parliaments, to meet the target of the 2016 Paris […]
Hunger rising due to extreme weather
Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a […]