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| On December 29, 2009, Ms. Line Beauchamp, Québec's Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, announced that the Regulation respecting greenhouse gas emissions from motor [read more]Monday, 11 January 2010 | Stephan Trudeau |
| Submitted by Grant Boyle
A Request For Qualifications ( #ON-001874 / PCT- 2378 ) was issued December 21 by the Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) with the intent of establishing a series of qualified [read more]Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
| Submitted by Grant Boyle
COP 15 ended Saturday afternoon. The Parties decided to extend the mandate of the working groups under the Kyoto Protocol and Long Term Cooperative Action and requested [read more]Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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COP 15 ended Saturday afternoon. The Parties decided to extend the mandate of the working groups under the Kyoto Protocol and Long Term Cooperative Action and requested [read more]Monday, 21 December 2009 |
| Today, the Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Industry, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, along with the Honourable Michael Gravelle, Ontario [read more]Thursday, 17 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| GDF SUEZ has completed construction and achieved commercial operation at Caribou Wind Park, located 70 kilometers northwest of Bathurst, New Brunswick. The largest wind operation in the province, [read more]Thursday, 17 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| If you're a professional protestor (as lots of these people are), and you've got to riot over something - it may as well be over climate change.
There were more protests today - this time downtown [read more]Thursday, 17 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| I blogged earlier today about the scene in the Bella Centre and what was going on in there. Turns out I was lucky to get in when I did. As I said, there was a heavy police presence and a sit in at [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| The Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") announced today that it will offer 700 microFIT contracts to homeowners, schools, farmers and small businesses. This is the first round of offers to be [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The federal government may be contemplating special treatment for the oil sands under its yet-to-be-unveiled greenhouse gas regime (see e.g., here, here, and here). Cabinet documents obtained by the [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| A study prepared for the American Wind Energy Association and Canadian Wind Energy Association concludes that wind turbines do not pose a health risk to those who live near them. The study dispels [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
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On December 15, the working group for Long Term Cooperative Action under the UNFCCC presented its work to date at Copenhagen, which it initiated in Bali in 2007, as a [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
| It's snowing again today - lovely December day in very pretty Copenhagen. The snow and the Christmas decorations make it look like something from a fairy tale. Fairy tale is not, however, what [read more]Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| When we were in the line-up for registration this morning, someone remarked to us "if climate change isn't real, why are all these people here".
Good question.
That climate change [read more]Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Chilly, snowy day in Copenhagen today. The Bella Centre was packed with people waiting to get in again today, although the queues were better organized and the protester/activist types were actually [read more]Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| A key theme of the federal government's climate change strategy in the past few months has been to align Canada closely with the U.S. In so doing, the government's goal is to ensure that our [read more]Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| It's really nothing new.
The talks in Copenhagen seem to be confirming the status quo. Developing countries are still looking for someone to pay for climate change so they can continue growth [read more]Monday, 14 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
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The forestry sector, mainly through deforestation in developing countries, accounts for about 17.5% of global greenhouse emissions. 80% of these emissions are caused by [read more]Monday, 14 December 2009 |
| I thought I'd divide the blogs into two sections. One section devoted to the "experience" of being in Copenhagen, and one about what the Conference is doing. For those of you not interested [read more]Monday, 14 December 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
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The Chair of the Working Group on Longterm Cooperative Action released a draft text on the outcome of deliberations so far at Copenhagen.
So where do we stand on the [read more]Friday, 11 December 2009 |
| Canada, Canada, and Canada, which has managed a hat trick in the first three days of COP 15 in Copenhagen.
The Climate Action Network, a coalition of over 450 NGOs worldwide dedicated to limiting [read more]Thursday, 10 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Ontario is not on track to meet its own emissions reduction targets. That is the conclusion of the Annual Greenhouse Gas Progress Report 2008/2009 released by the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario [read more]Thursday, 10 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Submitted by Grant Boyle
Developing country climate finance is a key issue for negotiation this week in Copenhagen. Developing country demands are high and developed country willingness is mixed.
Certainl [read more]Wednesday, 9 December 2009 |
| According to the Montreal Gazette, Alberta's Environment Minister Rob Renner is willing to raise the $15 price of carbon emissions in Alberta in the wake of the negotiations in Copenhagen. But such [read more]Tuesday, 8 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") released its long-awaited finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Specifically, the EPA found that "current and projected [read more]Tuesday, 8 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Ontario's Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure announced this week that it has quintupled the incentive available to organizations that install solar thermal hot water systems. The maximum provincial [read more]Tuesday, 8 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Submitted by Grant Boyle
Recently some of the largest GHG emitting countries announced greenhouse gas reduction targets, breathing some life into the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations [read more]Monday, 7 December 2009 |
| Today at the 2009 Solar Conference, the Government of Canada announced an investment of up to $1 million in the First Power solar project through its ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat program. In addition [read more]Monday, 7 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| On Wednesday, New York lawmakers approved the transfer of $90 million of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ("RGGI") auction proceeds to help fill the state's $3.16 billion budget deficit [read more]Friday, 4 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Finally.
The federal government has announced that its much anticipated climate change program will not be based on emissions intensity targets. Responding to a question from question from Bloc [read more]Friday, 4 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Ontario Legislature passed the Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 today. As discussed when the bill was introduced in May, the new legislation provides [read more]Thursday, 3 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| As reported today in the Star, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently released a study that concludes that industrial scale wind turbines do not have an adverse effect on the value of properties [read more]Thursday, 3 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Canadian Solar Inc. plans to build a $24 million solar module manufacturing facility in Ontario, according to a press release issued this week. The facility is expected to create 500 jobs and will [read more]Thursday, 3 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The world's first concept demonstration tires made with BioIsoprene technology, a breakthrough alternative which aims to replace a petrochemically produced ingredient in the manufacture of synthetic [read more]Wednesday, 2 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
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On November 25 BC introduced a reporting regulation under the GHG Reduction Cap and Trade Act that will come into force on January 1, 2010. The regulation will require facilities [read more]Wednesday, 2 December 2009 |
| On December 1, Ontario passed O. Reg. 452/09 (the "Regulation") which requires large emitters to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the Ministry of the Environment ("MOE") [read more]Wednesday, 2 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Days before the United Nation's historic Copenhagen summit, the esteemed Munk Debates will tackle one of the great public policy questions of our time: how should the world respond to climate [read more]Tuesday, 1 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| Last week, Québec Premier Jean Charest and Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Line Beauchamp, unveiled the province's target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [read more]Tuesday, 1 December 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| Canada's reputation is taking a bit of a pounding in the final weeks before the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. While that reputation may not prove to be particularly material in the [read more]Tuesday, 1 December 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Reuters reports that Denmark, host country for the climate change talks that begin next week, has released a draft proposal for Copenhagen. The draft calls for 50% emissions reductions from 1990 levels [read more]Monday, 30 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Only a week remains before the opening of the much anticipated climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. While hope for a binding agreement has waned in recent weeks, a series of announcements in [read more]Monday, 30 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| As recently as this morning, the Toronto Star reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would not attend the global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Later in the day, Dimitri [read more]Thursday, 26 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Today, the Canadian government announced $63 million of project funding support for the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) Project, a fully integrated, large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project [read more]Tuesday, 24 November 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| Today Statkraft, one of Europe's leading renewable energy companies, opened the world's first osmotic power prototype just outside Oslo, Norway. The prototype generates power by exploiting [read more]Tuesday, 24 November 2009 | Stephan Trudeau |
| The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation ("CCEMC") issued a press release this week that of the 223 projects submitted in its EOI process, thirty clean and green projects [read more]Sunday, 22 November 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| What came first, the chicken or the egg? Observers on the various fronts of climate change policy development may have been pondering a similar conundrum in the run-up to Copenhagen. What should come [read more]Friday, 20 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") released updates to the FIT program late yesterday. A summary of the changes is available here.
The program updates include in specific changes to:
t [read more]Friday, 20 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| On November 18, 2009 BC Hydro released Questions and Answers (Q&A) on its website regarding BC Hydro's role with respect to First Nations consultation. The Q&A stems from uncertainty in [read more]Thursday, 19 November 2009 | Danielle Jarvis |
| Minister Prentice believes that in order for the international community to reach a new framework to deal with climate change, the U.S. must "get on board".
Speaking to a packed room [read more]Sunday, 15 November 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| The Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") has released three important updates to the Feed-in Tariff ("FIT") program:
1) Domestic content Q&A
The OPA has been flooded with [read more]Wednesday, 11 November 2009 | Andrew Lord |
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