Recherche: Climate change

Polar Bear on Thin Ice comes to downtown Montreal. As an emblem of the North, the polar bear invites us to reflect on climate change. What kind of impact is ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 10:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  4 April, 2013 - 09:00 - 21 April, 2013 - 20:00 Our ice bear sculpture is on display in the Quartier des specta ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 09/04/2013 - 11:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, April 4, 2013 – Today, Polar Bear on Thin Ice, a new exhibit, launched at the Place des Festivals of Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal. Artist Armand Vaillancourt was on hand to document the event with a live painting session. The ...

Communiqué - Loic Dehoux - 08/04/2013 - 16:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  15 February, 2013 - 10:00 - 11:30 Every year since 2005, Equiterre and partners have celebrated the annive ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 21/01/2013 - 18:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  9 January, 2013 - 10:00 - 5 February, 2013 - 18:00 The Centre for Sustainable Development (better known by its ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2012 - 17:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Canada trailed only by Kazakhstan, Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2013 climate change performance index December 3, 2012 (Doha, Qatar) Canada fell to 58th place out of 61 countries analyzed for their policies and action on climate change this year, tr ...

Communiqué - Loic Dehoux - 05/12/2012 - 17:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  4 May, 2012 - 17:00 - 20:30 The Lanaudière action group, in partnership with the Collège Saint-Sacrement d ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 02/05/2012 - 14:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A gang of environmentalists gathered on an outdoor Montreal rink on February 16 for a friendly hockey match. The goal: to raise awareness about the threat climate change poses to this winter sport. Each player wore the number one to m ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 01/03/2012 - 08:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  16 February, 2012 - 10:00 - 11:30 Every year since 2005, Equiterre and partners have celebrated the annive ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 13/02/2012 - 11:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A new Leger Marketing poll confirms that there is widespread support in Quebec for the fight against climate change. Eighty percent of respondents want their province to be a North American – or even world – climate leader.  As ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 13/02/2012 - 10:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal and Durban, December 12, 2011 - Equiterre reacts with indignation to the announcement by the Environment Minister that Canada is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, making clear the federal government's disregard for the fight against climat ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 13/12/2011 - 11:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban, the longest conference in the history of UN climate summits, has failed to result in an agreement that would limit the average global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. Instead, it will permit an alarming rise of 4 degrees – moving ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 12:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban, South Africa, December 11, 2011 - Steven Guilbeault, deputy executive director of Equiterre, had the following reaction in the wake of Durban: "A historic agreement was within our grasp in Durban, but the combined efforts of the Un ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In a full page ad in the Globe and Mail, Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and other African leaders called for Canada to take a leadership role in the fight against climate change. They contrast the positive role Canada played in the fight ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 07/12/2011 - 13:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, November 8, 2011 – Equiterre is unimpressed with federal Environment Minister Peter Kent's attempt to obscure the news that Canada will not participate in the second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol by announcing a $148 milli ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 09/11/2011 - 17:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, September 19, 2011 - Equiterre and the David Suzuki Foundation are delighted that the government of Quebec is going forward with plans to implement a cap-and-trade system as part of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). If well designed, th ...

Communiqué - Eveline Trudel-... - 21/09/2011 - 09:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Equiterre is deeply saddened by the death of Mr. Jack Layton, who showed courage and determination until the end. We send our sincere condolences to Mr. Layton's relatives, and to all Canadians, who have lost, this morning, a great defender of human rig ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 07/09/2011 - 11:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In response to the federal coal regulations announced this morning by Minister Kent, Climate Action Network Canada would first and foremost request clarification as to whether the Maxim coal plant will be subject to these new regulations*. These regulat ...

Communiqué - Marie Ève Roy - 19/08/2011 - 13:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ottawa/Montreal, July 20 2011 – As premiers gather today at the annual Council of the Federation meeting, leading non-governmental groups from across the country are calling on provinces to clarify their support for the Kananaskis energy minister& ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 20/07/2011 - 16:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Quebec's environment and industry ministers have released a draft bill to bring in a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions by 2012.  Quebec will be one of the first jurisdictions in North America – along with California an ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 11/07/2011 - 10:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, July 6, 2011 – Equiterre commends Minister Arcand’s decision to move forward with a draft regulation for the implementation of a carbon cap-and-trade system in Quebec as part of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). “Q ...

Communiqué - Eveline Trudel-... - 06/07/2011 - 15:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  22 August, 2011 - 08:00 - 26 August, 2011 - 17:00 "What are those at the forefront of Ecocity thought, pr ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 21/06/2011 - 16:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For six weeks this spring, the 4th edition of Défi Climat, Quebec's largest awareness-raising and mobilization campaign in the fight against climate change, rallied thousands of people around one goal: to reduce their collective greenhous ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 24/05/2011 - 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, May 3, 2011 – Canadian voters gave Mr. Harper's Conservatives a majority mandate yesterday, prompting Equiterre once again to remind the government that the climate can't wait any longer. Our organization is ready with solutions that ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 03/05/2011 - 11:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, April 11, 2011 – Equiterre welcomed the NDP 2011 platform. The proposals unveiled yesterday include cutting oil subsidies and redirecting revenues into energy conservation, green technologies and sustainable transportation. Clima ...

Communiqué - Marie Ève Roy - 12/04/2011 - 11:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, April 7, 2011 – Equiterre hails the Green Party platform, which in addition to containing many interesting environmental measures, includes a major tax reform that would generate 35 billion dollars a year in revenue without increasing th ...

Communiqué - Marie Ève Roy - 07/04/2011 - 17:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Montreal, April 3, 2011) Equiterre is encouraged by the environmental and energy related aspects of the Liberal Party of Canada’s platform. The platform contains progressive policy proposals to improve Canada’s future in the clean energy ec ...

Communiqué - Marie Ève Roy - 04/04/2011 - 14:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

At a January 26 hearing of Quebec's environmental commission BAPE, we came out in favour of the Massif-du-Sud Wind Farm project. We see it as a viable source of renewable energy, with the potential to decrease Quebec's dependency on fossil fuels and hel ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 03/02/2011 - 15:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Steven Guilbeault, cofounder and deputy executive director of Equiterre, has once again been re-elected co-chair of Climate Action Network International (CAN-International). Recognized by the United Nations, CAN-International represen ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 26/01/2011 - 11:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments