Archives: Climate, Sustainability & the Environment

Monday, July 10, 2023

Alex Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail

SPPA faculty member Alexandra Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail about government approach aimed at growing the clean energy economy in the ‘Big Idea’ section of the June 2023 the Report on Business magazine, titled "Money for nothing?". Mallett finds herself thinking about whether the government’s appetite for the blockbuster deal—not... More

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna

SPPA Post Doctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld along with co-authors Megan Bailey, Hekia Bodwitch and Hussain Sinan published "Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna" in Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2023. DOI 10.1111/csp2.12751 Abstract... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Lisa Mills: Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia

SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101097  Highlights Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue. Reform to address... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Alexandra Mallett: Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case

Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett's paper Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – Can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case was recently published in Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 13, March 2023, 101186, as part of a special... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

FIGHTING AN INVASION – Scientists and policy experts work to stop spread of invasive species

By Dan Rubinstein         In the early 1990s the mountain pine beetle outbreak began in British Columbia, wiping out more than half of the province’s commercial pine trees. The insect has continued its destructive advance eastward, breaching the Rocky Mountains into Alberta and now threatening the boreal forest in... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

NET-ZERO NOW: Researcher helps accelerate decarbonization in Canada

By Dan Rubinstein To ward off the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. That means in less than three decades the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere from all sources of emissions — buildings, industry, transportation and so forth — must be no greater... More

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

SPPA Adjunct Research Prof and PhD Alum Brendan Haley Talks to CBC about Reducing Household Emissions

Agents of change A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country? By Andre Mayer Jan. 16, 2023 On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his... More

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Patricia Hardie: Op-Ed in Toronto Star on Nature-Based Solutions and the Climate Crisis

Pretending ‘nature-based solutions’ will solve the climate crisis is perverse and delusional We cannot hide behind language that tells a bizarre story about how the planet we are in the process of destroying is simultaneously going to save us. By Patricia Hardie Sun., Jan. 1, 2023 Every day I walk in the “Hundred Acre... More

Thursday, January 5, 2023

SPPA Postdoc Laurenne Schiller and Prof. Graeme Auld Publish in One Earth

SPPA Postdoctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld have published a paper, "Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations," in One Earth that looks at the evolving participation of industry in the annual meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, one of five Regional Fisheries... More

Thursday, September 1, 2022

James Meadowcroft – Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: Governance Strategies from Transition Studies and the Transition Accelerator

Daniel Rosenbloom (University of Toronto) and SPPA Chancellor's Professor James Meadowcroft's recent paper Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: Governance Strategies from Transition Studies and the Transition Accelerator. was published in Current Climate Change Reports (Aug 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00185-7. Abstract Purpose After... More

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