Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]
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Brazil is going to be home to a lot of world events over the next few years. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics during August, with the 2016 Summer Paralympics one month later. Earlier, 2013 will see Brazil host the Confederations Cup, run by FIFA (the International Federation of Association Football) followed by the [...]
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Twenty six countries including Canada, United States, Brazil, China and India are vehemently opposing the European Union’s unilateral move to impose aviation fuel fees on airliners flying over its air space in an attempt to curb carbon dioxide emissions. Canada has vowed to aggressively oppose this policy, stating that it will cost its airline industry [...]
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Recently, during the Kyoto talks in Durban, China raised the need for developed countries to potentially fund $500 billion a year plus utilization of technology to developing nations, which I thought was very interesting and an excellent suggestion providing that the Chinese are among those who will do it and not seek to be seen [...]
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Whenever there is talk about carbon footprint, I always get a chuckle every time representatives from Canada and US start to finger China and India because we are the worst polluters per capita. China and India’s carbon foot print per capita is 1.84% and 1.06% respectively whereas Canada’s is 7.66% and the US is a [...]
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One headline stands out among others balking at Harper’s bold move pulling Canada out of the international Kyoto Protocol: “B.C. responds to Kyoto withdrawal with a shrug” (The Globe & Mail, Dec. 14) A shrug? Amidst all the clenched fists and raised neck veins coast to coast– this indifferent, non-vexed gesture? Canadians everywhere are shaming [...]
Read more →The 2nd International Forum on Sustainability taking place this year is going to have an all star celebrity line-up, featuring speeches from Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and director James Cameron. The Forum is taking place beginning tomorrow, March 24 until March 26 in Manaus, Brazil. The 2nd International Forum on Sustainability The goal [...]
Read more →It’s no secret that Beijing, China and Delhi, India are host to some of the worst air quality in the world. Rising up the ranks to join these two cities now is Tehran, Iran, who in the past two weeks has shut its entire city down for three days because of air quality concerns. The [...]
Read more →The United Arab Emirates, Australia and the United States have the worst overall records for emitting greenhouse gases, according to the CO2 Energy Emissions Index (CEEI), released last week by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risks analysis firm. This adjusted index ranks nations by weighting 3 separate criteria. The index gave a 50 percent weighting to [...]
Read more →Today in Mexico City, 135 mayors from cities throughout the world signed a groundbreaking agreement on climate change, as a result of the World Mayors Summit on Climate (WMSC). Martha Delgado, Mexico City’s secretary of the environment and ICLEI vice president, had this to say about the agreement: “Cities have great capacities to address climate [...]
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