CanadaThe paper considers a variety of sources of potential climate liability in Canada. Sources considered include the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, jurisdictional issues, aboriginal rights, the public trust, judicial review of regulatory decisions, tort principles of such as nuisance, negligence, ...
Canada’s federalism system, with a division of powers between its national and provincial governments, complicates the ability to comprehensively tackle climate change, and has led to historical and current lags in Canada’s response to climate change. Despite these legal obstacles, there remains ...
Inresponse to a parliamentary questionfrom a left-wing German lawmaker, the state secretary at the ministry of economic affairs and climate action Udo Philipp said the government is considering 10 applications for export credit guarantees for fossil energy projects in Brazil, Iraq, Uzbekistan, the D...
Several issues are being considered to assess the situation in terms of: a) local knowledge and awareness among the citizens, b) characteristics of existing policies and measures of local government bodies, c) conflicts among different policies in different sectors and d) limits of the adaptation ...
Sokol is originally from Brooklyn in New York but moved to Montreal in Canada around 20 years ago. Xe has written three novels - Cycling to Asylum, Run J Run, and Zee - and has a fondness for "hope-punk", a subgenre of speculative fiction that features characters fighting for positive ...
Canada could support the world in achieving water sustainability, but it must first get its own house in order and achieve the UN's water goals nationally. Canada still has not reacheduniversal accessto reliable, potable water supplies for everyone, especiallyFirst Nations communities. Lead pipes,...
Carbon rights and land ownership are among the most pressing challenges for First Nations and other Indigenous governments as they work to advance NBS via carbon markets. Addressing these issues requires action from corporate Canada, from provincial, territorial, and federal governments, and from NGOs...
Changing climate and weather patterns are going to have dramatic impacts on Canada's production potential of hydroelectricity, according to new Concordia research.
If asked to name things that get support from well-meaning people, but in practice often operate as scams, I would listforeign aidandclimate change. So what happens when you mix these issues together? You get utter absurdity, as documented in amassive reportbyReuters. ...
Then, in order to deep into the analysis of the messages, we employ natural language processing (NLP) tools to assess the various emotions evoked by the different Tweets. In particular, we use the lexicon developed by the National Research Center Canada (NRC), denoted as EmoLex (Mohammad ...