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What is COVID-19 telling us about the impact of climate change?
The global pandemic that has been affecting all economies and societies for the past year has shown that a virus with an estimated case fatality rate of 0.5 to 1% [1] has led to extraordinary public health challenges around the world. These new challenges have hit...
The Global Movement Behind Accelerating Post-Covid Climate Action
Climate change is an issue that is currently being addressed in almost every country, city, and region of the world. The IPCC concluded in its 2018 report that the world would have a better chance of limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5°C if zero greenhouse...
Report on The State of Energy in Quebec 2021 by HEC Montréal: an alarming observation
Since 2015, the HEC Montréal Chair in Energy Sector Management, headed by Pierre-Olivier Pineau, has been publishing every year a detailed report on energy in Quebec according to its main components: the level of consumption, the nature of energy sources, the...
The waltzing value of carbon credit prices and greenwashing
Throughout the year 2020 we have seen a growing interest in corporate and public sector carbon neutrality, recently referred to as "net zero carbon"[1] by corporations such as BP, Total, Shell, Apple, Microsoft or by the Canadian government[2] and many others. In...
Audit in COVID time
In the process of realizing a carbon footprint of a building or the qualification, quantification and verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction projects inherent to Will's methodology, field audits are the necessary step of "on-site evidence gathering", as per...
An Overview of Mechanisms to Support Nature-Based Solutions in Canada
The status of support mechanisms for nature-based solutions in Canada was the subject of a virtual conference held on October 15, 2020. The conference, called Scaling Canada's Nature-Based Solutions: Who, How and What's Next, was co-hosted by Globe Series and...
The Legault Government’s Green Plan: A Different and Pragmatic Approach to Climate Action
As François Legault said at the outset, "the core of our project is the electrification of our economy". We are therefore not in the traditional dynamic of a Sustainable Development Plan or Green Plan but, in front of a "Green Economy Plan” as it is written and...
Post-COVID Economic Recovery: A Climate Opportunity?
By: Alexie Roy-Lafontaine As a society, we are at the crossroads between a human and a sanitary crisis and an economic and social crisis. The current historical confinement period and self-assessment leads to certain reflections in regard to our lifestyles, our...
A Four Twenty Seven conference: « Climate Change and Wildfires: Projecting Future Wildfire Potential ».
The following is a summary of the conference presented by the organization Four Twenty Seven entitled "Climate Change and Wildfires: Projecting Future Wildfire Potential." Briefly, the mission of Four Twenty Seven is to quantify and analyze the risk of catastrophic...