Changing the way Ontarians commute will cut oil demand, protect the environment and save money
Bridging the Gulf highlights the connection between the choices made by commuters in Ontario, and the negative impacts of oil extraction in North America in light of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and ongoing ecological impacts from oil sands development. It focuses exclusively on personal transportation — how Ontarians get around every day — and presents five key actions to reduce oil demand based on policy changes that are already underway in the province.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Sustainable Communities, Smart Growth, Oil Sands, Ontario Smart Growth, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
Climate change adaptation case studies
How communities in the global south are coping with climate change
Five international case studies show how communities in the global south are adapting to climate change. The case studies focus on:
• Drought-affected communities in Kenya
• Chronic food insecurity in Zimbabwe
• Adapting agriculture to extreme weather in Bolivia
• Environmental stress and risk assessment in West
Kalimantan, Indonesia
• National Adaptation Plans
of Action in Malawi and Niger
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Climate Change: International Commitments
Canadian Oil Sands and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Facts in Perspective
This briefing note outlines key information about greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands today and in the future. Recent attention to the issue of greenhouse gases in Canada and the U.S. prompted the Pembina Institute to outline key issues in more detail.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Oil Sands, Climate Change: US Policy
Revised July 2010
Pembina's analysis finds the proposed federal regulations for tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles and light trucks may have little to no effect on reducing climate change pollution.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Federal Action
Letter: Request to deny amendments to Genesee 3 approval
Statement of Concern by Clean Energy Coalition to Alberta Utilities Commission
The Clean Energy Coalition objects to the amendments that Capital Power is seeking to the AENV Approval and AUC Approval for its Genesee 3 power plant expansion.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Energy Watch, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
The views of more than 5,000 sustainability thought leaders in Canada, the U.S. and Europe are outlined in The 2010 Global Thought Leader Survey on Sustainability.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Sustainable Energy, Environmental Governance, Ecological Fiscal Reform, Oil Sands, Climate Change: Carbon Pricing, Climate Change: Federal Action, Climate Change: International Commitments, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
This updated backgrounder explains why Canada should support global climate action at the G8 and G20 summits in June.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Federal Action, Climate Change: International Commitments
An Analysis of the May 2010 Discussion Draft
In May 2010 U.S. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman published a draft piece of legislation called the American Power Act, which would set U.S. national greenhouse gas emission targets and establish an economy-wide cap-and-trade system. This briefing note describes some of the provisions of particular significance for Canada.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Federal Action, Climate Change: US Policy
Canada's Coolest Cities - Edmonton
Edmonton Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Technical Report
"What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation?" Canada's Coolest Cities set out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Canada's Coolest Cities - Calgary
Calgary Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Canada's Coolest Cities - Vancouver
Vancouver Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Canada's Coolest Cities - Toronto
Toronto Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Canada's Coolest Cities - Ottawa
Ottawa Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Canada's Coolest Cities - Montreal
Montreal Case Study
What are Canada's large cities doing to encourage low-carbon choices for personal transportation? Canada's Coolest Cities sets out to answer this question through case studies of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Les villes les plus vertes du Canada - Montréal
Étude de cas de Montréal
Les gouvernements municipaux et les autres gouvernements locaux ont la possibilité - et la responsabilité - de prendre des mesures concrètes pour réduire les émissions de GES sur leur territoire, et plus particulièrement celles reliées aux transports.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Sustainable Communities
Presentation on Climate Change at the G8 Summit in Canada
Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
Canada's role as host of the G8 summit in June 2010 is an opportunity to make progress on climate change and give much-needed momentum to global negotiations toward creating a lower-carbon economy.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Federal Action, Climate Change: International Commitments
An open letter sent from a coalition of environmental groups to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama calls on both leaders to honour their commitments to act on climate change at the G8 and G20 meetings this summer.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Federal Action, Climate Change: International Commitments
Driving Down Carbon fact sheet
Commuters hold the keys to reducing climate change emissions in Ontario
Making key improvements to personal transportation policies would result in greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to taking one million vehicles off the road and also reduce driving time for commuters.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Smart Growth, Ontario Smart Growth, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
Reducing GHG Emissions from the Personal Transportation Sector in Ontario
Making key improvements to personal transportation policies would result in greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to taking one million vehicles off the road and also reduce driving time for commuters.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Smart Growth, Ontario Smart Growth, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
























