Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms

Climate Action Network Canada
The Heinrich Boll Foundation

2011 

The renewable energy and agriculture sectors have clear, and underexplored, synergies. Vast areas of farmland can be used for wind installations without …

Conservation vs. Electricity Supply

Clean Air Alliance

This updated factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority’s spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods. OPA has entered contracts for …

Darlington Consumer Protection Plan

Clean Air Alliance

OPG is seeking permission from the Ontario Energy Board to raise its rates commencing March 2011 to start paying for the Darlington Re-Build project.  According to OPG, …

Building the Green Economy

WWF-Canada, Blue Green Canada and the Green Energy Act Alliance.

Ontario could create up to 90,000 jobs through investments in green energy and grid upgrades, according to this report released …

Some U.S. states ethanol, biodiesel, and low carbon fuel legislation

This outlines several states legisaltion mostly related to ethanol and biodiesels, including Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, California, and Iowas (note only California was listed a shaving a low carbon fuel …

Planetary Citizen’s Guide to the Global Climate Negotiations- COP 12Nairobi

Pembina Institute
November 2006

From November 6th – 17th, 2006, Kenya will host the 12th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2nd …

Pembina- Backgrounder on Poznan COP-14 climate negotiations

Pembina- Clare Demers and Matthew Bramley
November 2008

This year’s UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, represents the halfway point in a crucial two-year negotiation on fighting global warming. The conference …

Organization of UN climate change bodies – Chart

2006

This chart shows the relationships between the various bodies that participate in UN climate change negotiations.…

Pembina COP-16 Briefing Note

Clare Demerse- Pembina Institute
November 2010

This note provides a general overview of the issues on the table at the annual UN climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, and assesses the Government of Canada’s positions heading …

U.S. ambassador to Canada: reduce oilsands’ environmental impact

Alberta will continue to feed America’s energy needs but must work to clean up resource extraction operations, David Jacobson, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, said Tuesday.

As more criticism of …

On Thin Ice: Winter Sports and Climate Change

David Suzuki Foundation
2009

The future of winter sports is at risk due to global warming, according to this report. By 2050, if we fail to take immediate action onclimate …

Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty

Oxfam
2009

Climate change is damaging people’s lives today. Even if world leaders agree the strictest possible curbs on greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions, the prospects are very bleak for hundreds …

The 2006 UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi: CAN Backgrounder


Expectations of Canadian Environmental Organizations

October 31, 2006
Background

What

From November 6 to 17, 2006, the world’s governments will meet in Nairobi, Kenya to resume critical negotiations on reductions …

Analysis – Manitoba Government and Climate Change

Manitoba Wildlands
October, 2007

This chart is part of an overall analysis of Government of Manitoba climate change policy and actions. The statements below are excerpts from within ‘Kyoto and …

CAN International – Views regarding the scope and content of the second Review of Article 9 under the Kyoto Protocol

Climate Action Network International
August 2007

In CAN’s view thefirst review of Article 9 under the Kyoto Protocol was a missed opportunity to advance discussions on a number of important issues. …

Renewable is doable – A smarter energy plan for Ontario

WWF-Canada and the Pembina Institute

Renewable is Doable confirms that smart, targeted investments in a diverse array of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions over the next twenty years will …

CPAWS Backgrounder – A comprehensive approach to climate change must include conservation of ecosystems

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
November 2007

As Canada’s voice for wilderness, CPAWS is promoting changes to Kyoto rules for land use and forestry that promote the best possible outcomes for …

Sierra Club of Canada – Planetary Citizen’s Guide to the Global Climate Negotiations

Sierra Club of Canada
November 2007

This guide is meant to help make the negotiations a success by equipping citizens with the information you need to effectively pressure governments to …

Pembina Institute – Canada in Bali: A Backgrounder on the 2007 UN Climate Negotiations

By Clare Demerse, Matthew Bramley and Dale Marshall
November 22, 2007

Pembina Institute and David Suzuki Foundation discuss the basics of the 2007 UN climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.…

Bali: COP-13 Backgrounder- What’s At Stake?

Climate Action Network
November 2007

Discussion of progress since the Montreal conference, and what is needed from the Bali climate negotiations.…

Bali: COP-13 Backgrounder

December 3-14, 2007
Bali, Indonesia

From December 3-14, the most important climate change meeting to date will take place in Bali, Indonesia. This United Nations Climate Change Conference, will set out …

Intensity-Based Targets: Not the Solution to Climate Change

David Suzuki Foundation
February 26, 2007

Canadians are being told that solving the global warming problem requires an intensity- based approach, or intensity-based targets, for our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. …

Fair Share, Green Share: A proposal for regulating greenhouse gases from Canadian industry

The Pembina Institute
February 20, 2007

There is a strong consensus in Canada that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial facilities must be regulated, to turn round the growth in …

Our Fair Share: Canada’s Role in Supporting Global Climate Solutions

Pembina Institute
2009

Argues that Canada and other wealthy countries have not provided sufficient funding for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, and estimates that Canada’s “fair share” of …

Towards a Sustainable Energy Strategy

Saskatchewan Environmental Network
January, 2007

This report is intended to help decision-makers to begin taking seriously the possibility of a sustainable, safe, environment- and climate-friendly energy future for Saskatchewan. We …