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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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