What We Can Learn About Climate Action from UK Cities
Experience of UK local governments shows deep community engagement is critical for rapid and ambitious action.
Combining Electrification and Deep Retrofits to Decarbonize Canada’s Buildings
As organizations and utilities plan for the future of electrification, efficiency is a critical way to minimize peak demand and make the transition to zero-carbon buildings viable.
How Industrializing Retrofits Can Decarbonize Canadaâs Buildings
Old, leaky buildings are a climate problem. For organizations with large building portfolios, this challenge is paramount to reducing emissions. And itâs a critical one for solving the climate crisis.
Why Doesn’t Canada Have a National Retrofit Program Already?
In 1906, American philosopher William James coined the phrase âthe moral equivalent of warâ in referring to the problem of sustaining political unity and resolve in the absence of war. U.S. President Jimmy Carter used the phrase in his famous energy crisis speech of 1977 to describe what it was going to take to respond […]
We Need to Accelerate Canada’s Green Recovery
What would happen if Canadaâs major cities prioritized a green recovery in response to COVID-19? Their investments could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds by 2030, create over 2.9 million jobs, and reduce air pollution by 32%, preventing 3,950 premature deaths over the next decade.
UK Cities Lead on Global Climate Action Goals
LONDON, MONTREAL, NEW YORK, and VANCOUVER, Dec. 17, 2020 [Press Release] — Five years into the Paris Agreementâand in the lead-up to the 2021 UN climate negotiations in GlasgowâUK cities are taking bold climate action. Cities worldwide have much to learn from their UK peersâ successes and challenges, according to a new report released Thursday […]
SSG Co-Founder Yuill Herbert in National Observer
Last week, Edmonton city council passed a historic planâthe first in Canada to incorporate a carbon budget limiting how many greenhouse gas emissions the city can emit. SSG helped crunch the numbers behind the ground-breaking carbon budget and we hope Edmonton will be the first of many Canadian municipalities to take this step.
SSG Co-founder Yuill Herbert in Green Economy Heroes Podcast
In mid-July, SSG Co-founder and Principal Yuill Herbert was featured in the Green Economy Heroes Podcast with Dianne Saxe, an environmental lawyer and the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.
As Go the Ecosystems, So Goes the Economy
An energy and environment expert reflects on the post-Covid recovery. When daily life is humming along more-or-less routinely, it is easy to lose sight of just how uncertain the future really is, even during the best of times. And these are not the best of times. The pandemic has brought an abrupt halt to business […]
SSG and whatIf? Technologies Stand With Black Lives Matter
Black lives matter. This needs to be asserted strongly and defended unequivocally. To be silent on the injustices faced by Black people in Canada, the United States, and around the world, is to be complicit in their oppression. It is to lose a part of our humanity. It is to dishonour the memory of George […]
