“The 1,800-page study will show people living today, as well as
wildlife and future generations, are at risk unless urgent action is
taken to reverse the loss of plants, insects, and other creatures on
which humanity depends for food, pollination,
clean water, and a stable climate,” The Guardian reports, citing the
three-year study by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Scientists and government
representatives met this past weekend to finalize the wording of the
summary for policy-makers ahead of its release.
Tag Archives: environment
Tick-tock: Ticks are spreading across Canada. Here are their new homes
Once relatively rare in Canada, blacklegged ticks are moving in across large parts of country, bringing with them the threat of Lyme disease.
They’re
moving fast — between 35 and 55 km per year, according to Nick Ogden,
director of the public health risk sciences division at the Public
Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
Federal Carbon Tax Is Constitutional, Saskatchewan’s Top Court Rules
REGINA — Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal has ruled in a split decision that a federally imposed carbon tax is constitutional.
The
Saskatchewan Party government had asked the court for its opinion on
the levy that came into effect April 1 in provinces without a carbon
price of their own.
In a 155-page decision on the reference case,
Chief Justice Robert Richards writes that establishing minimum national
standards for a price on greenhouse gas emissions falls under federal
jurisdiction.
He writes Ottawa has the power to impose its carbon
tax under a section of the Constitution that states Parliament can pass
laws in the name of peace, order and good government.
India evacuates nearly 1 million as powerful Cyclone Fani bears down
Officials in India mobilized a massive evacuation effort on Thursday
as the country braced for landfall from a potentially devastating
Cyclone Fani.
as the country braced for landfall from a potentially devastating
Cyclone Fani.
Nearly one million people are being evacuated ahead
of the cyclone’s looming strike on the eastern India coastline as the
week ends.
In an appearance before the upper house’s energy committee Thursday, Kenney said
Ottawa’s attempt to rewrite existing assessment legislation, do away
with the National Energy Board and bolster Indigenous participation in
the approvals process — among many other changes to the natural
resources regime — creates uncertainty for an industry that is
facing constrained pipeline capacity and cratering commodity prices.
Ottawa’s attempt to rewrite existing assessment legislation, do away
with the National Energy Board and bolster Indigenous participation in
the approvals process — among many other changes to the natural
resources regime — creates uncertainty for an industry that is
facing constrained pipeline capacity and cratering commodity prices.
“There
is a growing crisis of national unity in Alberta which would be
exacerbated by the adoption of this bill and other policies like it,”
Kenney said. “If this bill proceeds, it will be a message to the people
of Alberta that their federal government doesn’t care about a
devastating period of economic adversity in our province.”
Kenney said
he is prepared to launch a constitutional legal challenge against the
legislation if it is passed by the Senate as written, saying Ottawa is
unfairly intruding on an area of provincial jurisdiction.