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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada expects to announce this week that all new cars will have to be zero emissions by 2035, a senior government source said, as Ottawa is set to unveil new regulations in the latest example of countries around the world pushing for …

It’s getting harder for companies to hide their dirty secrets. Regulators around the world are increasingly forcing them to disclose their carbon emissions, along with other key climate change considerations such as how much financial risk they face. Momentum is building as the rising dangers from wildfires, droughts and floods …

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 7, 2023 7:31 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal Liberals will finally provide details on their long-promised oil and gas emissions cap Thursday. The policy is a critical piece of Canada’s long-term emissions reduction plan but Thursday’s framework …

Brigette DePape and her husband Kari Rodriguez made New Year’s resolutions to reduce their household emissions. They decided to focus on transportation, home efficiency and composting. “We wanted to do something together as a family,” DePape said. DePape, a longtime climate activist, then came across the Live Net Zero Challenge. …

Canada will likely publish the final regulations of a plan to cap and cut greenhouse gases from the oil and gas sector by mid-2024, its environment minister told Reuters on Thursday. The government will table draft regulations on the plan by October and expects to publish the final regulations by …

The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is on track to reach pre-pandemic levels of carbon emissions, according to a new report released on Tuesday.  The report from The Atmospheric Fund (TAF), which describes itself on its website as a “regional climate agency that invests in low-carbon solutions,” says the drop in emissions at the height …

The United Nations says current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course to blow past the limit for global warming countries agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord. The United Nations climate office said Wednesday that its latest estimate based on 193 national emissions targets would …

Alberta farmers say the discussion and misinformation around federal targets to reduce fertilizer emissions are ignoring the voices of local producers and hurting the country’s agriculture industry.  The federal government has set a target of reducing emissions from the use of fertilizers by 30 per cent below 2020 levels by …

The federal government says Canada will still achieve its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments despite Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault offering the oil and gas sector a little more time to hit its targets. “The target date hasn’t changed. Really, the minister was just trying to show flexibility and good will,” said Bruce Cheadle, a …

Enlarge / All those lights take energy. Back in the pre-legalization days, cannabis production meant finding a rarely visited patch of land and growing outside, or it meant taking cultivation indoors—typically to a basement where your product wouldn’t be visible from the outside world. But the power use involved in …