Tag: Colin Isaacs

Policy POV: Plastic pollution hotspots and circular solutions

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When Ontario's Blue Box household recycling initiative was launched in the 1980s it was lauded as being at least one of the major answers...

Policy POV: How to validate your environmental claims and avoid greenwashing

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The terms “greenwash” and “greenwashing” were reportedly first used by American ecologist Jay Westerveld in the mid-1980s to describe the practice of making invalid...

Policy POV: Canada needs to turn on the taps for water...

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A June 2023 article from the Yale University School of the Environment with the intriguing title "Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to 'Extreme'...

Collaboration on clean energy and more underscored at G7 summit

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The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as...

Policy POV: Barriers to effectively resolving environmental risks

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Politicians are not the only people who too often seem to believe that tough regulations can solve all of our environmental challenges. It is...

Policy POV: The big-ticket green budget

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The concept of a green economy, led by green budgets from governments, has been around for several decades but this year's budget may be...

Policy Perspectives: Why is Canada having such a tough time meeting...

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A recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) on global methane emissions helps clarify why Canada is having such a difficult time meeting...

UN initiative to address climate confusion and misinformation

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was quite candid in his address: "We are flirting with climate...

Legal action launched for climate change-related damage

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What would you do if you were a member of a municipal council frustrated by the lack of government action on climate change and...

Investing in 2023? Developing cleantech — here and abroad — is...

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From precision farming to energy infrastructure, all indicators show that Canada is poised for future growth in clean technology. This was the focus of...