Is the Canadian Federal Government doing enough to create taxation incentives for SMBs to help them take advantage of green innovation?
Total Voters: 3
Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:53am EDT
By Jeff Mason and Claudia Parsons
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao announced new goals on Tuesday to slow the growth in his country’s carbon dioxide emissions while U.S. President Barack Obama warned time…
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:50 AM PDT
The David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute have released of a new joint publication for Canadians who are interested in using carbon offsets to reduce their climate impact.
Purchasing Carbon Offsets: A Guide for Canadian…
Since the dawn of the industrial era the build up of greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere has increase from 278 parts per million (PPM) to 379 ppm in 2005. According to scientists the maximum allowable CO2 build up…
The low-carbon revolution is not going to happen by itself, says Andrew Pendleton. In this week’s Green Room, he calls on governments put the necessary frameworks in place that will allow the private sector to roll out the technologies needed…
An agreement on clear, practical goals could achieve major reductions in emissions
Tony Blair
former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The leaders of the world’s largest economies will meet in L’Aquila, Italy, at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) this week to discuss…
By Peter Griffiths
OXFORD (Reuters) – Public awareness about the “catastrophe” of climate change is not high enough to pressure politicians into taking action, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday.
Gore, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his…
With the United States being the last major nation to accept global warming as a genuine threat to our species, it is hardly surprising that its proposed “green” protectionism is drawing the ire of nations all over the world.
While doing…
If you have a couple minutes to spare, take a look at the clip above. Created for the Congress for New Urbanism, it’s a catchy short film linking suburban sprawl to global warming. It frames global warming as…
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming…
One of the greatest threats to our future society and economy is global warming. It is estimated that the CO2 emissions of the ICT industry alone exceeds the carbon output of the entire aviation industry. The ICT industry and research…
