À la prochaine a Paris

In this Issue #19 Our agenda in Paris Seven members of our team will travel to Paris for the next two weeks. We have multiple objectives. The story of cities: Cities have a powerful role in plotting the trajectory to a low carbon future. We will be participating in the Climate Summit for Local Leaders […]

Associate Webinar: Brennan Vogel on sub-national approaches to climate change adaptation

Continuing our series of Associate webinars after Lindsay’s excellent kick-off, Brennan Vogel, Associate of SSG and PhD candidate will present and discuss his research focused on sub-national approaches to climate change adaptation in Canada. Brennan will share empirical evidence and analysis of the social factors that enable and constrain adaptation at the local scale, based on […]

Pathway to Paris #16: Three steps to low carbon cities: finance, effective planning, appetite

A biweekly climate briefing for municipalities About this service Subscribe to this newsletter Contact the editor   In this Issue #16 How do we ensure cities are low carbon? Clean energy grows and grows in Canada Talk of the Cities Downtown is sought after for both living and working Are wealth indexes an accurate measurement […]

SSG Summer 2015 review

Our monthly newsletter on news and inspiration at the nexus of sustainability This month we decided to run a review of where SSG is at and what we have learnt over the past six months from the diverse projects we have completed, and ones we have started. Extreme weather planning for farms, to greenhouse gas […]

The pressure mounts with 87 days to go until #COP21

A biweekly climate briefing for municipalities About this service Subscribe to this newsletter Contact the editor   In this Issue #15 A UN meeting in Bonn with [mostly] hopeful results Country commitments are falling way short of expectations Under 1.5C is cheaper than high carbon business Islamic scholars follow the lead of Pope Francis II […]