New debate needed on Canada-EU trade deal
"It is time for Canada to lead in re-evaluating what type of trade agreements are needed for this century." Howard Mann discusses the proposed CETA in an opinion piece for Canada's The Hill Times.
"It is time for Canada to lead in re-evaluating what type of trade agreements are needed for this century." Howard Mann discusses the proposed CETA in an opinion piece for Canada's The Hill Times.
“The U.S. EPA has been moving on this pretty systematically now for three of four years and with the agreement today Canada is going to have to figure out how it’s going to align and get on board,” said Scott Vaughan, president and CEO of the International Institute of Sustainable Development.
“I think there’s been a fundamental shift from Ottawa’s perception of climate related issues,” said Vaughan, who is currently president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. “In the Arctic it’s profoundly more serious and accelerating more rapidly than anywhere else in the world. We need to move on this urgently.”
Scott Vaughan, president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said the common ground staked out by Trudeau and Obama is the "the first time in 15, 16 years that you've got two political leaders in Canada and the U.S. that are of the same mind to be able to talk about climate."
Peter Wooders, the director of our Energy program, calls on the UK to stop subsidising fossil fuels.
Dimple Roy and Jo-Ellen Parry argue in an opinion piece in the Manitoba Cooperator that collective action is the best way to respond to the threat to Manitoba's lakes.
"India is trying to streamline the way it delivers billions of dollars of cheap food, fuel and fertilizer to the poor. It may, however, have overstated its progress so far—by a factor of 100. That’s the conclusion of researchers at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, or IISD, a Canada-based think tank. Their focus is India’s new system of “direct benefit transfers” for supplying cooking gas."
"IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) has come up with a research paper that refutes government’s claims on savings in the Aadhar-linked LPG subsidy scheme."
"Lake Winnipeg, the 10th-largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, has received international attention for its declining water quality. This underscores the urgency with which Manitobans must act to protect our lakes and the economic, cultural and ecological value they provide. Luckily, we already have many of the answers in hand."
Hank Venema argues that climate change adaptation and resilience measures should on the enviroment agenda of the new Manitoba provincial government in an opinion piece for the Winnipeg Free Press.