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Sustainable delivery firm gofor unveils new brand

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Sustainable delivery company gofor has unveiled what the firm calls a “new brand, new mission, and new philosophy”. The rebranding also includes a new website: deliverbetter.com.

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While a few provinces are well ahead of the rest on electric vehicles (EV), others have fallen behind. Buyers in Canada’s Prairies are having a hard time finding EVs at affordable prices and without lengthy waits.

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British Columbia residents will have access to hundreds of new electric vehicle (EV) chargers by the fall. The federal government is investing $3.5 million to install 810 EV chargers across the province by October 2023.

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Zak Lefevre, co-founder and CEO of ChargeLab, sees his company as the Android for electric vehicle (EV) charging. The startup builds software to manage EV charging equipment that can be used across a variety of charging networks.

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Several industries — and several Ontario regions — will collide next week in Greater Sudbury for the first Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) conference. The event aims to connect the mining sector in northern Ontario with the automotive industry in southern Ontario.

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Efforts to create a global sustainable finance hub in Quebec have expanded with the announcement of nine new signatories to the Quebec Financial Center Declaration for Sustainable Finance as well as the creation of a Quebec-France Corridor in sustainable finance.

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While it’s true that sustainability reports and goals are now common practice for the world’s largest companies, the communication around net-zero initiatives has been, in too many cases, vague, misleading and incomplete.

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Foundation works, underground parking structures and below-grade floor area have disproportionate impacts on a project’s embodied carbon. For mid-rise and high-rise structures, between 20 to 50 per cent of each project’s total volume of concrete was below grade.

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Summer is always a jittery time for the power industry — the electric grid doesn’t like extreme heat. It likes hurricanes even less. But nervousness appears to be running higher than usual — and for good reason.

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To cut microgrid costs, industry experts offer five strategies: optimize the energy resources to ensure they provide benefits, consider cost- and time-saving design tweaks, avoid overengineering, take advantage of standard packages and look into financing that involves no upfront costs.

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Despite decades of studies and climate summits, greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar. Energy scientist Vaclav Smil says it’s time to stop ricocheting between apocalyptic forecasts and rosy models of rapid CO2 cuts and focus on remaking our energy system.

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Federally funded hydrogen hubs have the potential to reduce emissions, but could also be as dirty as coal without proper oversight, according to a recent blog post from non-profit RMI.

Land & Development

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a growing role in the sustainability initiatives of organizations around the world, as more than two-thirds of businesses either use or plan to use AI today as part of their sustainability initiatives.

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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solutions will be available June 1 and will provide the intelligence and data management capabilities for organizations to make progress with their sustainability goals and requirements.

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Globally, about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and food systems. Several technologies are already available that can help decarbonize the complex systems that link producers and consumers. Here are five that are showing tremendous potential.

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Women made up about 19 per cent of corporate board seats in 2019, an increase from about 18 per cent from the year before, even though the total number of board seats studied fell, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday.

Global Property Market

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Jo Taylor, chief executive officer of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, has plans for the $242-billion fund to buy more controlling stakes in businesses directly, so that it can save on fees and keep a closer eye on ESG matters.

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British Columbia is changing its decades-old royalty system, the fees it charges companies to extract publicly owned oil and gas, in an effort to align with provincial climate goals.

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The world’s oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.

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Central bank policymakers and other global authorities are exaggerating the financial risks of climate change, a senior HSBC banker in charge of sustainable investments said in remarks that drew criticism from climate activists.

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Members of the Carbon Footprint Initiative (CFI) partook in a tree planting initiative at Turnberry to rebuild some of that forest, lost after settlement. They planted almost 100 trees as part of their ‘carbon sequestration and flood plain restoration plan.’

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