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Green bond investment is key to averting dangerous climate change: California’s inaugural green bonds symposium

May 16, 2018 // By Sharon M. Szmolyan

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – The California State Treasurer’s Office, Environmental Finance, and the Milken Institute gathered finance industry experts, government, academics and environmentalists at California’s inaugural Treasurer’s Green Bonds Symposium 2018, held at the Milken Institute. Read more »


Climate disclosure, credit ratings and Canada

March 06, 2018 // By Nicole Martin

The One Planet Summit, which took place in Paris late 2017, commemorated two years since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the establishment of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Read more »


Directing Disruption: A new approach to climate policy

February 27, 2018 // By David B. Layzell

It is time for Canada to take a new approach to climate policy making if we want to achieve our shared environmental and economic goals. Read more »


The Age of Abundance: Revelation of reality, or revolution of green?

February 06, 2018 // By Aundene Szmolyan

London, UK – Forty-five perspectives, nine panels, one full day. The Economist’s Energy Summit, held in London, UK on November 28, 2017 offered a deep look into the transition in the world of energy. Read more »


Canada's financial sector is missing in action on climate change

January 30, 2018 // By Celine Bak and Ed Waitzer

There is a pressing need to reassert the social utility of the financial sector – including the development of products, services and markets that help mobilize capital for social good. Why, then, is it so difficult for our financial institutions (and regulators) to "connect the dots"? Read more »


Consumer demand, not regulation, will end the carbon economy

January 18, 2018 // By David Wolfe

At the most recent Group of 20 meeting, the conflict between the United States and the other participants over support for the Paris climate accord garnered most of the attention, while an unexpected transformation was overlooked: The energy economy is changing faster than world leaders recognize. Read more »


The jig is up for Canada's carbon tax laggards

January 15, 2018 // By Gary Mason

Jason Kenney has spent months now gleefully ripping Alberta's NDP government for the carbon tax it brought in and just raised to $30 a tonne. Read more »


Albertans saved $300 million, reduced three million tonnes of GHGs in first year of provincial energy efficiency programs

January 08, 2018 // By Mark Lowey

Alberta lagged behind other North American jurisdictions in implementing energy efficiency programs but is catching up fast, says the head of Energy Efficiency Alberta. Read more »


Canadian cleantech startups get ready for a breakout year

January 05, 2018 // By Tyler Hamilton

Canada's global reputation for cleantech innovation is on the rise. A 2017 study from one of the sector's premier research organizations, Cleantech Group, ranked us fourth in the world as a clean-technology innovator – and tops among Group of Twenty countries – up from seventh place in 2014. Read more »


A red alert for the Arctic: Fossil fuel development not the way to move forward

January 03, 2018 // By Edward Struzik

Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod was right when he issued a “red alert” in November and called for an urgent national debate on the future of the Northwest Territories. Read more »


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