Despite what you may find amid the myriads of comments in social media on climate change policies, carbon pricing has been working for a long time. Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission recently released a st

According to Thomas Mueller, president and CEO of the Canada Green Building Council, buildings are responsible for 30% of the country’s emissions, which are mostly generated by heating, cooling, and

After an unprecedented five-party coalition formed between centrist, leftist, and green parties, Finland’s new government is making a bold move. They have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2035, far

​A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation reveals how Canada can zero out our emissions by the middle of this century. Based on decarbonization studies in Canada and around the world, it highlights

Canada, the UK, and the US often ship contaminated, mixed, or non-recyclable waste to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, among other countries. This enables richer countries to adopt an ‘out of

Amid current floods triggering states of emergency and forced evacuations in Quebec, Canada’s National Building Code is being updated to address the imperative and very urgent challenges posed by

There is a scholar, Alfred Whitehead, who talks about the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, that is when an abstract belief is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. One

Last week, the U.S. unveiled a Green New Deal resolution, which outlines plans to become carbon neutral in the next 10 years. With a WWII-level of economic transformation, it calls for national

Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, so they have a big part to play in keeping to a l.5 degree increase. The built environment must be carbon

This article in the National Post points out some of the complexities of reducing GHG emissions and some of the ironic aspects of blaming others rather than everyone acting now. It is interesting that