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Opposition laments New Brunswick s slow progress on climate change goals
New Brunswick’s Green Party leader says that while the province has made some progress on meeting climate change goals, it’s largely the result of years-old measures and new steps will be required to hit future targets.
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Posted: Jan 21, 2021 5:59 PM AT | Last Updated: January 21
New Brunswick released a progress report on its 2016 climate change action plan, but opposition MLAs say there hasn t been enough progress. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
The province
released a progress report Thursday the first since the plan was unveiled in late 2016 detailing the actions that have been taken over the past several years.
The plan focuses on seven different areas: provincial government leadership; collaboration with First Nations; GHG emission reductions; adaptation to the impacts of climate change; economic opportunities; accountability and reporting; and funding for climate change.
It includes 118 action items meant to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while promoting economic growth and increasing climate change resilience.
In all, 25 of the items are listed as completed, 87 others are in progress, and the remaining six are listed as “future start”.
Last Updated: Dec 24, 2020 1:48 PM
One of the big Owen Sound milestones of 2020 the completion of the 10th Street Bridge replacement project. (City of Owen Sound Twitter photo)
Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy says despite pandemic shutdowns in 2020, quite a bit still happened in the city.
Looking back at the year, Boddy says, “Business did continue, the planning department, engineering department, with site plans and things coming in didn’t really slow down. People kept working, engineers kept working so a lot of that kept going.”
Boddy says construction value in the city was about $65 million, compared to last year’s roughly $42 million. He says the last time it was this high was 2010.
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF 23 December 2020 by
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World Bank and the IMF have done in connection with the environmental crisis and climate change.
At the end of October 2006 Nicholas Stern, Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, handed Prime Minister Tony Blair a 500 page report on the consequences of the current climate change and measures to counteract this trend. In his report Nicholas Stern writes: “Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as