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A new report from the Toronto Climate Observatory, a research hub based at the School of the Environment, University of Toronto, has calculated that Toronto’s largest financial institutions were responsible for over $1.43 trillion CAD ($1.1 trillion USD)

New Report: Bay Street’s Carbon Footprint Rivals Nations

October 08, 2024

(Toronto, October 8, 2024) – Toronto’s top financial institutions financed over $1.43 trillion CAD ($1.1 trillion USD) in fossil fuel companies in 2022, contributing to at least 1.44 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions- nearly twice the total emissions of Canada, and nearly 100 times the total emissions of the City of Toro

Explaining green industrial policy in an age of globalization

July 18, 2024

Governments are increasingly using industrial policy to develop low-carbon economic sectors and catalyse the energy transition. A recent study provides a framework to explain why governments adopt different types of green industrial policy, depending on industry position in the global supply chain and types of uncertainty.

Exposing environmental injustice through maps and stories

June 06, 2024

Often, it is society’s poorest and most vulnerable people that are most exposed to environmental harm. This injustice is the subject of much research, but getting the evidence needed to bring about major change can be challenging.

The Climate Establishment and the Paris partnerships

May 23, 2024

The Paris Agreement created an institutionalized role for non-state actors through voluntary cooperation. Many international NGOs (INGOs) are particularly active in these “Paris partnerships,” often working with multinational corporations to reduce emissions and promote decarbonization.

The ability of the Greenbelt to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

May 13, 2024

PhD Students from Debra Wunch's lab published CO2 fluxes of vegetation in the Greenbelt of Ontario and increased net ecosys

We must never abandon our climate targets

January 03, 2024

Eight years ago, at the Paris climate change talks, the United Nations agreed a legally binding treaty to limit global warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial global average temperatures, and to pursue efforts to keep the temperature increase below 1.5°C. Canada was a vocal supporter of the more stringent 1.5C limit.

Environmental Governance Lab publishes climate fiction magazine "We Did It!?"

June 26, 2023

Reaching Canada’s legislated 2050 Net Zero goal has been the subject of discussion for governmental commissions (e.g. Net Zero Advisory Body) think tanks (e.g. Canadian Climate Institute), and even neighborhood associations in Toronto (e.g. Toronto's Harbord Village Net Zero Committee).

Forget it, you can't keep politics out of climate change

April 04, 2023

Professor Jessica Green spoke to BNN Bloomberg about the latest IPCC report. "We know that going over 1.5 degrees would be very bad. This is not primarily a technological problem, it is a political problem...There are things we know how to decarbonize and haven't done completely," said Green.

Professor John Robinson appointed to the City of Toronto’s Climate Advisory Group (CAG)

December 05, 2022

Professor John Robinson was appointed to the City of Toronto’s Climate Advisory Group (CAG).

Testing the limits of international space law

August 15, 2022

The Russian government has said that it will‌ withdraw from the International Space Station‌ “after 2024.” Instead of choosing multilateral cooperation, it plans to build its own station and send cosmonauts there to continue space research and exploration.

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