Businesses should be putting plans in place this year to prepare for a low-carbon economy, having been given a strong signal from the latest climate change negotiations that governments are serious about tackling global warming, according to the former United Nations climate chief.
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The B.C. government won't condemn Ottawa for pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, says provincial Environment Minister Terry Lake. “I understand the federal position," said Lake, who attended last week’s climate change summit in Durban, South Africa.
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(Reuters) - Representatives of nearly 200 nations will assemble at the end of November in Durban, South Africa, for their annual summit on climate change.
Following the failure of talks in Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun in 2010 to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol -- the only global...
The Conservative government is on the right track with its approach to greenhouse gas reductions, but it needs an extra push to reach its 2020 targets, a group of independent researchers says.
The report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, released Monday,...
OTTAWA, /CNW/ - The Conference Board of Canada today released a study assessing the economic impact of the ethanol industry in Canada, its environmental and health effects, and the balance between the energy required to produce ethanol and the amount of energy generated.
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Canada's natural resources minister is criticizing the European Union over its plan to discriminate against Canadian oil derived from Alberta's oilsands.
Joe Oliver released a letter Sunday to EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger in which he lambastes the EU's fuel quality directive...
Microsoft and Ford have both launched efforts aimed at increasing the amount of information available on their vendors’ commitments to social and environmental policies.
Starting in 2013, the software giant will require a cross section of its suppliers to provide reports on their...
Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s today unveiled a £1 billion ($1.6 bn) sustainability plan, including a pledge to reduce operational carbon emissions by 30 per cent absolute and 65 per cent relative, compared with 2005.
The U.K. chain’s 20 by 20 Sustainability Plan sets out...
Over the past decade, hotel companies have implemented programs to reduce the waste generated and the energy used in their daily operations. Many have been successful in saving both resources and money as well as attracting environmentally conscious guests; however, the industry as a whole has...
Virgin Atlantic Airways plans to fly commercial routes, by 2014, with a waste gas-based fuel that the company says has half the carbon footprint of standard aviation fuel.
Partners LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels are creating the new fuel by capturing, fermenting and chemically converting...