¶ Published Tuesday, December 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The Ontario Securities Commission has issued Notice 51-717 Corporate Governance and Environmental Disclosure, which outlines OSC plans to enhance compliance by reporting issuers (other than investment funds) with corporate governance and environmental disclosure requirements. The Notice is part of the OSC’s corporate sustainability reporting initiative.
The OSC is also giving itself a year to develop [...]
¶ Published Monday, December 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features ∞ No Comments »
We have just pushed out a small feature. When you search for an item in Nimonik, you can now filter the results by Legislation, Topic, or Updates. This makes it easier to find what you are looking for fast.
We are working on search in registers, expect it soon.
¶ Published Saturday, December 26th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Neat little video about deforestation.
Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo.
¶ Published Thursday, December 24th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
To follow-up on our last post, Copenhagen was a disaster. There are many possible motives, but one observer claims China blatantly sabotaged the talks. See this Guardian article, but here is the crux of his statement:
The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful “deal” so western [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, December 23rd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Both environmentalists and climate change skeptics should read this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Nigel Lawson, who for years was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher’s Government.
Lawson is long-time critic of the Kyoto Protocol and, for a while at least, sided firmly with global warming skeptics. He’s nuanced his arguments in [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, December 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Video ∞ No Comments »
Last summer, I had the chance to sit down with my friend Christian Matossian at ÉEM. He is their stakeholder engagement director. Stakeholder engagement is becoming more and more important to modern-day business. Top-down management simply does not hold water, partners, communities and organizations need to be included in discussion right from the start. Some [...]
¶ Published Sunday, December 20th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The oilseeds in Alberta are one of the world’s largest environmental dangers. Not only are the greenhouse gas emissions astronomical, the tailing ponds can be seen from space and the nearby rivers are heavy in toxic metals.
But, the same could be said of 1960s pulp and paper operations across the country. What did it take [...]
¶ Published Saturday, December 19th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
Not sure how productive Copenhagen was, but this blow by blow account of the negotiations has Obama getting down in the trenches and making things happen, good read. Any agreement on emissions targets has two very large issues to confront:
Attaining the targets and
Verification of claims that targets were met.
For example, most countries signed onto Kyoto, [...]
¶ Published Friday, December 18th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The team at Environmental and Engineering Magazine graciously allowed us to write an article last summer, it was published in their September issue, which can be found here. The article is title, Ontario’s new Green Energy Act makes energy from biogas even more economically attractive by Yves Faguy on page 54.
The team at ESEMag also [...]
¶ Published Thursday, December 17th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
We have previously mentioned that there may be more important issues in the world today than climate change, malaria is one of them. The disease kills thousands of people every year and dramatically slows the economic growth of many african countries by keeping children out of school and parents sick at home. Some climate change enthusiasts [...]
