Quebec launches ambitious organics strategy
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
The Quebec government has unveiled a $1.2-billion strategy to boost the recovery of organics by 2030.
7/10/2020 | Full Story
Sask shows some improvement on resiliency, but there's room for more
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Saskatchewan’s second annual report against its 2018 Climate Resilience Measurement Framework shows modest improvement, with the province judging its performance “good” against 18 of 25 indicators, an increase of three...
6/26/2020 | Full Story
Clarification: "The case for a national Climate Act" (Ecolog News June 19, 2020)
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The UK 2050 target and five-year carbon budgets are binding on the government. The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Secretary of State to ensure that emissions in the UK reach net zero by 2050, to set carbon budgets with a view to...
6/26/2020 | Full Story
ALBERTA - environment legislation
Source: Print Archives
Directive 060: Upstream Petroleum Industry Flaring, Incinerating, and Venting. Latest version. Effective May 12, 2020.
6/26/2020 | Full Story
The case for a national Climate Act
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
Updated June 26, 2020
6/19/2020 | Full Story
Packaging: less is not always best for avoiding food waste and reducing emissions
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A new research report, “Less Food Loss and Waste, Less Packaging Waste”, by the National Zero Waste Council warns that when it comes to food, our efforts to reduce packaging may end up doing more harm than good if it results in more...
6/5/2020 | Full Story
COLUMN: Proposed European Green Deal actions could be relevant to Canada
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
As the world prepares to move past the lockdown strategy of the COVID-19 pandemic, some activists and political leaders are suggesting that the rebuilt economy should have as an underpinning a much greener framework. The Canadian government has...
5/15/2020 | Full Story
Alberta, Ottawa agree on methane reduction
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
The Alberta government says it has reached a preliminary equivalency agreement on methane reduction with the federal government. Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the federal government may strike an equivalency agreement...
5/15/2020 | Full Story
Offsets alone could halve NWT's emissions, says Alternatives North
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
The Taltson Hydro Expansion, the centrepiece of the Northwest Territories’ (NWT’s) plan to reduce emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, is an unnecessarily costly venture driven less by the needs of the climate and more by the...
5/8/2020 | Full Story
Deep retrofits could kickstart post-COVID recovery
Source: www.ecolog.com Daily News
Could a deep retrofit of Canada’s building stock be one of the keys to achieving the twin goals of economic recovery and decarbonisation of the economy? That was the question put to a panel of experts at an Earth Day (April 22, 2020)...
5/1/2020 | Full Story
