SPEAKER: Chris Derksen Research Scientist / Chercheur scientifique Climate Processes Section / Section des processus climatiques Climate Research Division / Division de la Recherche climatique Science and Technology Branch / Direction générale des sciences et de la technologie, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). TITLE: Key Findings from Canada’s Changing Climate Report ABSTRACT: Canada’s Changing Climate […]
CACOR JOINS Advocacy Statement of the G78 on International Climate Finance
Dear Cacor Members: Attached you will find a joint statement of CACOR and the G78 who invited us to submit it to the Government of Canada on the topic of Canada’s international climate finance. Your board has approved this statement and it has been communicated to the Government of Canada. While you will wish to […]
Assessing Alternatives to Diesel Backup Power
Improved resilience has emerged as a top priority for the U.S. power grid. Efforts to mitigate wildfire risk in Northern California last year led to hundreds of thousands of electricity customers being disconnected from the grid. During hurricane season, customers in the Eastern and Southern U.S. often face the associated threat of multi-day power outages. […]
Lessons from the CACOR Pathways Study
The straight goods, not the sunny ways John Hollins, 2020 March 6 2030 The likelihood that Canada as a country will meet the commitment that it made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions by 30% between 2005 and 2030 is vanishingly small. The earliest politically and practically feasible year may be 2050. Large differences […]
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 […]