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Canada’s Northwest Territories propose adaptation plan

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2011

The Canadian territories of Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut released a pair of documents April 28 outlining their commitment to work together to adapt to the effects of climate change and to inventory their current and future renewable energy resources

Alberta issues CCS rules

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2011

The Alberta Canada government announced regulations April 28 detailing how permitting for large-scale carbon capture and sequestration projects will proceed in the energy-rich western province and who owns rights to use subsurface porous space

BC clean tech industry growing

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada
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  • June 19 2011

KPMG released a report last week that found that British Columbia’s clean technology sector is emerging as a strong force in the Canadian economy

Canada blocks WTO panel request

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • June 19 2011

On June 17, Canada blocked Japan’s request for the establishment of a World Trade Organization dispute panel to examine whether domestic content requirements under a program in Ontario aimed at encouraging the development of alternative energies is in violation of global trade rules

Canadian pipeline decision hastened

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • June 19 2011

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power approved the North American-Made Energy Security Act (H.R. 1938) June 15 along party lines

HFC reduction proposed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, Mexico, USA
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  • May 15 2011

A joint proposal by the US, Canada, and Mexico seeks an 85 percent reduction in hydroflurocarbon use worldwide in an effort to uphold a declaration signed by more than 90 countries in November 2010

Black carbon action urged

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA
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  • May 15 2011

A ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council ended May 12 with a final declaration that urged unilateral action by Arctic countries to limit black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers

Western Climate Initiative proposes framework for evaluating offset projects

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Mexico, USA
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  • July 17 2011

On July 14, the Western Climate Initiative proposed a step-by-step process that government entities participating in a regional GHG emissions trading program could adopt to ensure availability of high-quality emissions offset projects

Report outlines climate impact on Canada and Caribbean

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada
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  • October 2 2011

On September 29, after undertaking the first national study of climate change's economic consequences for Canada, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy released Paying the Price: The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada detailing the negative impacts of climate change on the Canadian and Caribbean economies unless global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and adaption policies are put in place in individual countries

Plan proposed to track compliance in emissions trading

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • July 5 2011

The Western Climate Initiative outlined how it would use a Compliance Instrument Tracking System Service (CITSS) to track compliance with the regional greenhouse gas emissions trading program it hopes to launch in 2012