December 7 marks the start of a two week long negotiation session in Copenhagen to hammer out new international emissions reductions targets when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. So where does Canada stand in advance of these talks? We’ve got the worst record when it comes to climate change ...

Suncor Energy published its corporate sustainability report last week, trumpeting improvements in absolute water use (a 22% reduction over the past six years) and land reclamation (more than 1,000 hectares reclaimed). It also included some interesting claims about CO2 emissions.

The Alberta government has more than $120 million ready to spend on projects that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and last month appointed long-time oilsands exec Eric Newell to oversee the distribution of those dollars.

Image is everything, and that applies to renewable energy, too. The entire industry is premised on being clean and environmentally friendly, and so it's not an insignificant public relations problem for wind power producers that turbines kill hundreds of bats and birds each year. But now a new report proposes ...

The science of climate change is, for better or worse, largely dependent on computer models, projections and assumptions. That means data can be skewed to serve just about any ideological stance. Consider the case of a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the costs of a cap-and-trade system.

Robert Page had his work cut out for him today. The Calgary, AB-based chair of Canada's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy was fielding a packed morning's worth of media from all across the country.

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Van Jones is a powerhouse. There's no other way to describe him. The one-time community-activist has taken his poverty- and pollution-busting agenda all the way from the nonprofit he founded in Oakland CA to the White House. As of the past four weeks, Jones is the special advisor on green ...

The latest issue of Rotman magazine (published by the Rotman School of Management) has an interesting article (not available online) about the 80-20 challenge: the need to reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions by 60% to 80% over the next 20 years to avoid, well, catastrophe.

I just got a notice about what sounds like an interesting event called GoingGreen in San Francisco on Sept 15-17. According to the notice, this is where "cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth."