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Economic costs of pollution simply sickening
"In April of 2017, the International Institute for Sustainable Development released a report (whose methodology was endorsed by the Conference Board of Canada) providing an estimate of the costs of pollution on ordinary citizens and families. Their conclusion is shocking, although not altogether unexpected: pollution costs Canadian families, businesses and governments up to tens of billions of dollars annually at least!"
Integrating Investor Obligations and Corporate Accountability Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements
The Mother Of All Disruptions
"Coal miners, steel, oil and gas, and construction workers are also looking at a tenuous future. The Canada-based International Institute for Sustainable Development predicts that autonomous long-distance-haul trains, automated drilling and tunnel-boring systems, and other technological job-slayers will reach their peak rates of deployment in the next ten to 15 years and replace 40–80 per cent of mine workers."
Tracking the SDGs in Canadian Cities: SDG 8
Nitrogen reduction not the path
“We have been researching the role of artificial nitrogen in algal blooms for almost 50 years now, and these latest results clearly demonstrate that ceasing nitrogen loading into lakes has little effect on the size or duration of algal blooms,” said Scott Higgins, lead author on the paper.
sNAPshot: Kenya's County Climate Change Funds
How to Beat Pollution Before It Beats Us
Du pétrole sera déversé délibérément dans un lac près de Kenora
"Une équipe de chercheurs déversera du pétrole dans un lac de la Région des lacs expérimentaux (RLE) afin d'étudier l'impact sur les poissons d'eau douce."