We all have role to play in protecting lakes
Dimple Roy and Alexis Kanu argue that we need a systematic watershed monitoring process in Manitoba, to ensure the best health for prairie lakes.
Dimple Roy and Alexis Kanu argue that we need a systematic watershed monitoring process in Manitoba, to ensure the best health for prairie lakes.
"Member States of the United Nations recognized the power of goal setting for achieving objectives through their decision in June 2012, to negotiate a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [...] These decisions embody the expectation that setting goals matters in governance settings, and that data to measure implementation provide critical tools to enable progress towards the goals."
"The Prairie Climate Centre is a collaborative initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Development, where Venema has been chief scientist since 2014, the University of Winnipeg and other partners with the mission to identify and implement ways to mitigate against climate change in Western Canada."
"What would it take to end hunger by 2030? 2030 is the year to meet the sustainable development goals. Of the SDGs, goal number 2 aims at zero hunger."
"Despite benefits such as more efficiency and less human-triggered accidents that the use of automation in mining has brought to the sector in the past five years, local communities and governments are set to lose jobs and tax revenues because of these emerging technologies, a new report shows."
Livia Bizikova participated in this interactive discussion on how two separate sectors can collaborate and align efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Karla Zubrycki explains how we have been working with the City of Winnipeg to develop bioenergy and compost out of cattails and grasses from ditches in Manitoba. (Article published with permission from Municipal World).
"“I don’t see this as being any reason to fundamentally change the course that the government has set.” Scott Vaughan of the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development, said in an interview from Marrakech, Morocco."
New numbers released by Peg reveal the extent of alcohol and drug abuse in Winnipeg neigbourhoods.
"Ahead of the autumn statement next week [...], we urge the chancellor not to answer calls from oil producers in the North Sea for another round of government subsidies."