Tag: Climate Change
High-speed rail presents major opportunities for decarbonisation of transport – IEA
Significant environmental benefit is capacity to shift passengers away from aviation High-speed rail (HSR) passenger activity totalled 625 billion passenger kilometres in 2015 with China, Europe and Japan together accounting for 95 per cent of the global total, according to the International Energy Agency. HSR is also the fastest growing passenger rail transport service worldwide […]
British Columbia and Washington meet on climate action, high tech, jobs
Total Canada-Washington trade valued at $25.6CDN billion B.C. Premier John Horgan and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee resolved to strengthen the partnership between British Columbia and Washington state, and act jointly to fight climate change, grow the tech sector and create good jobs across the region, according to a B.C. government press release. “Gov. Inslee […]
Canada launches $155 million clean technology growth program
Government claims its leveraging investment in publicly funded research, laboratories and programs Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced a $155-million program that will fund clean technology projects in the areas of energy, mining and forestry, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental outcomes, according to a Government of Canada press release. […]
SPARK 2017 conference in Edmonton a big success for Alberta clean tech industry
Emission Reductions Alberta planning SPARK conference again in 2019 More than 560 innovation and business leaders converged in Edmonton last week to attend SPARK 2017. The conference, featuring more than 80 speakers, was co-hosted by Emissions Reduction Alberta and Alberta Innovates, according to a press release. “Our province’s doors are open to ideas and investment,” […]
New poll suggests political risks for Conservative politicians without climate plan
“Half of voters won’t consider politicians who don’t take the issue seriously.” By Bruce Anderson, Chairman, Abacus Data Twenty years ago, when the world’s leaders were debating the Kyoto Accord, a case could be made that politicians who chose to be early champions of action to reduce emissions were running a certain amount of political […]
British Columbia sets up advisory council to meet climate goals
Council will work with industry, Ottawa to address emissions-intensive sectors, according to Horgan govt. A new advisory council introduced by B.C. Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman will provide strategic advice to government on areas of focus for climate action that go hand in hand with economic growth, according to a press release. […]
Column: Climate change not only factor impacting coal use
Tide of history running against coal, producers By John Kemp LONDON, Sept 13 – U.S. coal companies blame climate campaigners and the Obama administration for waging a war on coal that has cost thousands of jobs and threatened struggling mining communities. But coal’s long-term problems stem not from politics but from physical properties that make it […]
Icy Antarctica air reveals human-made methane levels higher than previously believed
Scientists say global warming could release methane from ancient carbon reservoirs such as permafrost In 2011 a team of researchers led by Vasilii Petrenko, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, spent seven weeks in Antarctica collecting and studying 2,000-pound samples of glacial ice cores that date back nearly 12,000 years, […]
Exxon, BP support carbon tax plan by elder Republican statesmen
Carbon tax plan calls for $40/tonne of CO2 produced Global oil companies including Exxon Mobil and BP Plc are throwing their support behind a carbon tax plan put together by a group of Republican statesmen, according to an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The carbon tax plan calls for a $40 tax […]
ExxonMobil: NY Attorney General’s “reckless and false allegations” misstate climate policies
ExxonMobil calls out attorney general for distributing filing to media before submitting it to court New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made “inflammatory, reckless and false allegations” when he misstated how ExxonMobil assesses the potential impacts of climate policy on its business to justify expanding a politically based investigation with “ever-shifting and unravelling investigative theories,” […]
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