Positive news from Quebec
Two California Forests Commit to New Protocols to Protect Global ClimateMontreal, QUE - Two privately owned California forests have become the first forestlands to join the California Climate Action Registry. |
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Kyoto Protocol strengthenedWorld - Critics damn it for a long list of reasons and it has been declared dead several times, but the Kyoto Protocol emerged stronger than ever after the Montreal conference on climate change that ended on Saturday. |
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Bypassing Bush, Americans Take Local Road to KyotoMontreal, Que. - While US President George W. Bush refuses to accept the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions, at least 40 million Americans will find themselves bound to the international treaty to curb global warming. |
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Run Your Car on Cow Fuel, Canadian Company SaysVille Ste. Catherine, Que. - A C$14 million ($12 million) factory near Montreal started producing "biodiesel" fuel two weeks ago from the bones, innards and other parts of farm animals such as cattle, pigs or chickens that Canadians do not eat. |
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Allies Hope Overcome US Climate Talk RefusalMontreal, Que. - Major US allies expressed confidence on Thursday that they could persuade a reluctant Washington to consider new ways to fight global warming at a 189-nation environmental conference. |
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Canada’s Environment Minister calls for more sources of renewable energyGatineau, Quebec, Canada - Canada's Environment Minister Stephane Dion has called on hydroelectric power producers to seize the environmental and economic opportunity offered by Canada's potential to produce renewable energy in its push for a sustainable, healthier and more prosperous country. |
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Parties to UN-backed treaty further reduce use of ozone-destroying pesticideMontreal, Canada - The 189 member Governments of a United Nations-sponsored treaty to protect the world's ozone layer, which filters out ultraviolet solar rays that cause skin cancer and other ills, today finalized an agreement under which developed countries will reduce their use of an ozone-destroying pesticide. |
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National news
- Canada introduces new rules to curb future vehicle emissions
- Another city in BC bans shark fins
- Vancouver council makes ‘historic’ move toward shark fin ban
- Nanaimo latest B.C. municipality to ban shark fin
- Quebecers cut plastic bag use in half
- City council votes 13-2 to ban sale, possession of shark fins
- Shark fin ban gains momentum in Metro cities
- Toronto joins growing list of municipalities to ban plastic bags
- Cancer deaths on the decline in Canada
- Broadcasters ordered to dial down TV ad volume
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