Entries by Jeremy Murphy

How do you convince your CFO or the City Council that your triple bottom line proposal will benefit the environment, society and the economy?

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Key financial tools in sustainable community development and how to use them How do you convince your Chief Financial Officer or the City Council that your triple bottom line proposal will benefit the environment, society and the economy? Mark Pezarro shares several tools and techniques to make a persuasive argument for sustainability in financial terms. This webinar focuses […]

How does SSG help cities evaluate and implement decarbonisation paths?

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This year, SSG released an integrated energy, emissions and finance model, CityInSight, designed specifically to support cities in identifying and implementing low carbon or decarbonisation pathways. As part of our series of webinars on this model, here the fourth in the series here. Hosted by Yuill Herbert from SSG and Marcus Williams from whatif Technologies, […]

Communiqué of Canada’s First Ministers

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From the Prime Minister’s Web Site (http://pm.gc.ca/) Canada’s First Ministers today issued a joint communiqué following the First Ministers’ Meeting and released a declaration on clean growth and climate change: “In the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, we met today to discuss the economy and actions to address climate change and agreed on immediate work […]

SSG February Newswire

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Our monthly newsletter on news and inspiration at the nexus of sustainability [Recently completed] FCM Guidebook for Brownfield Strategies makes top 5 resource for municipalities The Brownfields Strategy Guidebook has been selected by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities as one of their top five resources for municipalities in 2016. The guidebook is to inspire municipalities with […]

A carbon budget for Canada

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A collaborative framework for federal and provincial climate leadership Last month,  we recommended the analysis of carbon budgets coming out of Simon Fraser University. West Coast Environmental Law practice, an organisation we equally admire and support, also bring their analyses to the table. Again, with the carbon budget for Canada, they propose ideas on how […]

We’re recruiting!

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SSG is looking for two inspiring additions to our team as we expand and require additional support. Finance Coordinator and Administrator: 3 days a week* to start on Thursday 10th March 2016 Communications Specialist: 5 days a month to start Monday 14th March 2016 *Candidates in Ottawa interested in a full-time position should specify this in […]

Wrap up of Paris, COP21

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Friend of SSG, Kevin Anderson at the Tyndall Centre, provides this neat synopsis of the Paris Climate Agreement in an article for Nature Magazine. Impressed and staggered as we all were by the ease of international diplomacy to deliver an ambitious agreement, he shines light on the enormous assumption this is all based on. That […]