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Hydro One’s new CEO Mark Poweska faces tricky challenge to boost business while tackling climate change AC Energy appoints joint lead managers for green notes 
Fix Earth’s climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets, urges Nobel prize-winning astronomer 
The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change. 
Next decade is crucial in combating declining ocean oxygen levels which could ‘jeopardise humankind’ LEAMINGTON, NOV 28, 2019 – CANNABIS POWER – Hydro One CEO, Mark Poweska is in Leamington announcing the utility’s continued commitment to bring more power to the region as demand for electricity increases due to the influx of cannabis greenhouses. Glenn Lowson photo/The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Mark Poweska’s predecessor as chief…
AC Energy, Inc. has named the financial institutions that will be involved in its proposed three-year green notes offering, which is subject to market conditions, its parent company Ayala Corp. said on Monday. The planned notes offering are fixed for life or non-deferrable senior perpetual non-call instruments, and will be issued by AC Energy Finance…
Humanity should focus its attention on solving the climate crisis instead of farfetched and unrealistic notions of escaping Earth for unspoiled planets, a scientist who won this year’s Nobel Prize winners has said. Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz, who shared the prestigious 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his role in discovering planets orbiting distant suns,…
Nearly 50 years ago, three chemists named Mario Molina, Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen found evidence that chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals known as CFCs and released from aerosol sprays, were weakening the ozone layer that functions as the earth’s natural sunscreen protecting humans, animals and plants from harmful radiation.The discovery made big news and rattled the public.…
Next decade is crucial in combating declining ocean oxygen levels which are threatening sealife and could ‘jeopardise humankind’, experts warnStudy was carried out by the International Union for the Conservation of NatureFindings were presented in Madrid at the global UN Climate Change conferenceClimate change and pollution were named as the main causes of oxygen lossBy…
Posted December 08, 2019 16:09:39 There will be no new developments within 570,000 hectares of a ‘koala priority area’ in south-east Queensland, according to a new draft strategy announced by the State Government. Key points:The South East Queensland Koala Conservation Strategy 2019-24 identifies 570,000 hectares of koala habitat for protectionHabitat loss is a major contributor…
The loss of oxygen from the ocean due to climate change risks “dire effects” on sea life, fisheries and coastal communities, a global conservation body has said. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said that around 700 sites had been identified globally with low oxygen levels – up from only 45 in…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks before COP 25 to share all that Democrats have (ahem, haven’t) done to combat the climate crisis.Photo: GettyInternational climate talks kicked off on Monday in Madrid, and a delegation of House Democrats showed up to tell the world how much they care about climate change. But they actually revealed, uh,…
By Umberto BacchiTBILISI, Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Oil-rich Azerbaijan planted more than half a million trees on Friday to celebrate a 14th century poet, an initiative the government said would help tackle climate change but some environmental activists called “a waste of money”.The Azeri ministry of ecology said 650,000 trees were being planted…
Photo: GettyNatural gas, which fossil fuel companies market as a clean bridge fuel to renewables, is the fastest growing energy source. Renewable energy is on the rise, too, and the U.S. and Europe are using less coal. But according to new research, the world’s carbon emissions will still reach an all time high this year.The…
