The Arctic is a fragile environment that is of major concern as we address climate change. Ashifa Kassam writes in The Guardian about a letter sent by 250 scientists from 22 countries to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highlighting their concern over the imminent end of a research programme to better understand climate change. Canadian … Continue reading Concerns about end to climate change research programme in Canada
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The lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programmes for spending carbon pricing revenues effectively
Brendan Haley, a Banting post-doctoral fellow at Canada’s Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies answers an important question in an article on Policy Options website: What are the lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programs for spending carbon pricing revenues and building low-carbon transition organizations? Do you agree with those lessons? Using carbon … Continue reading The lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programmes for spending carbon pricing revenues effectively
Bringing the lessons of psychology to bear on communicating the importance climate change
There is an on-going debate as to the most effective approach to get people to take climate change seriously. Lucia Graves writes in the Guardian about the complications in finding the right approach. What are your views? Which works better: climate fear, or climate hope? Well, it's complicated There’s a debate in climate circles … Continue reading Bringing the lessons of psychology to bear on communicating the importance climate change
Search engines and climate change
Every day we use search engines such as Google. Hiroko Tabuchi writes in the New York Times about the advantage they are often giving to climate deniers. What have you experienced? How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches Type the words “climate change” into Google and you could get an … Continue reading Search engines and climate change
The importance of innovation in addressing climate change
It is important to have efforts in all areas to reduce energy demand. Stanley Reed writes in the New York Times about a more environmentally friendly laundry detergent that leads to important energy savings. Fighting Climate Change, One Laundry Load at a Time A Danish biotechnology company is trying to fight climate change — … Continue reading The importance of innovation in addressing climate change
World Bank provides support to 150 cities that are taking “aggressive climate action”
Increasingly we are seeing the importance of local action. Leila Mead writes on the IISD website about an important collaboration between the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and the World Bank to ensure cities have the necessary funding to implement sustainable initiatives and climate resilience programmes. World Bank Invests US$4.5 Billion for … Continue reading World Bank provides support to 150 cities that are taking “aggressive climate action”
Why Canada needs to give increased priority to low-carbon buildings
Where I lived in Canada, it is minus 30 degrees Celsius this week and then we can add in the wind chill. Undoubtedly the energy performance of the buildings is fundamental. Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre, and Karen Tam Wu, director of the Buildings and Urban Solutions Program at the Pembina Institute, … Continue reading Why Canada needs to give increased priority to low-carbon buildings
Testing times to understand the hazards of climate disasters
Insurance companies and many others are trying to better understand the implications of the increasing frequency of climate disasters. Hiroko Tabuchi writes in the New York Times about what companies are doing to better understand the hazards. To Test for Climate Disasters: Break, Burn and Throw Stuff In the backwoods of Rhode Island, a … Continue reading Testing times to understand the hazards of climate disasters
History shows there are lessons about living in harmony with nature without great dependence on technology
Mili Majumdar, Green Business Certification, Inc. in India, reviews several historical buildings in India on the Business World website. Her analysis shows that urban planners and architects need to go back to the drawing board and history books to take a lesson or two on how to design green buildings and create sustainable cities … Continue reading History shows there are lessons about living in harmony with nature without great dependence on technology
How will Brexit affect Britain’s climate strategy?
Hardly a newscast goes by without several items relating to Brexit. Following a post by Andrew Warren last week in EiD, Michele Stua and Ed Dearnley from the University of Sussex analyse some of the possible outcomes in an article on The Conversation website. Do you have any views? What will Brexit mean for … Continue reading How will Brexit affect Britain’s climate strategy?
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