Tag: Environment

Reusable bags were supposed to help save the environment, but only if shoppers bring them | CBC News

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Closets and car trunks around Ottawa are overflowing with reusable shopping bags as some shoppers admit they can’t remember to bring them back to the store and keep having to buy more. It’s a habit one environmental expert warns is unsustainable. “We’re treating them like single-use items, so it’s almost replacing one single-use item like the plastic bag with a reusable bag,” said Tony Walker, a professor at Dalhousie University who specializes in plastics and plastic pollution. Read full story here: Reusable bags were supposed to help save the environment,…

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Fighting Climate Change May Be Cheaper And More Beneficial Than We Think | CBC News

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Ten years after U.S. cartoonist Joel Pett penned that cartoon, there is stronger scientific consensus than ever that climate change is real, and more and more evidence that fighting climate change has positive side effects or “co-benefits.” Environmental researchers and policy advisers now say it’s crucial to take those into account when making decisions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. Read full story here: Fighting Climate Change May Be Cheaper And More Beneficial Than We Think | CBC News

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Most Styrofoam Isn’t Recycled. Here’s How 3 Startups Aim To Fix That | CBC News

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Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. Virginie Bussières jokingly refers to styrofoam as “public enemy No. 6.” That’s because the polystyrene takeout containers, electronics packaging, coolers and other products we discard each year are more likely to pollute waterways or get buried in landfills than they are to be recycled. (The No. 6 is a reference to the plastic’s…

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Ottawa’s New Carbon Pricing Plan Will Reward Clean Companies – Politics – CBC News

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The federal government added more meat to the bones of its core environmental policy Monday by releasing draft legislation on how pricing carbon pollution will work in Canada. The new legislation is the federal backstop and will apply to all provinces that haven’t created their own system and put it in place by September 2018. Here are three things to take away from the proposed legislation: The price on carbon pollution will start at $10 a tonne this year and increase to $50 a tonne by 2022. Environment Canada is launching…

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Federal government failing to put climate plan into action, environmental watchdog finds – Politics – CBC News

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The federal government must put its plan to cut greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change into concrete action to mitigate the catastrophic effects of wildfires, floods and extreme weather events, Canada’s environment watchdog warns. In a blunt fall audit report tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Julie Gelfand said the government has failed to implement successive emissions-reduction plans, and is not prepared to adapt to the life-threatening, economically devastating impacts of a changing climate. It is “crucial” that the government…

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