Category: Climate Change
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The Environmental Impacts of the Trump Administration (Part 1)
This article will be focusing on the changes and decisions made by the Trump administration throughout his 4-year reign, focusing on the subject of Air. This includes partnerships, plans, rules, standards and targets relating to air quality in the United States. The Trump Administration & Climate Change Throughout the 4 year term that Donald J.…
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The Sustainable Development Goals & Canada: Are We on Track?
This article focuses on Canada’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals pre-pandemic. In 2015 when the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first established and agreed upon by many world leaders, the decided deadline was the year 2030. This timeline allowed for 15 years worth of dedicated action by the number of governments involved, to…
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The Sustainable Development Goals: Global Setbacks
How was global progress on the goals pre-COVID? How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted this progress? The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic will be hard-hitting and long-lasting, according to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020. The 2020 Report includes data on each of the 17 goals before the outbreak of the pandemic, and how the outbreak has irreversibly…
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The Sustainable Development Goals: What Are They? Why Do They Matter?
What Are They? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in 2012. The aim of the conference was to produce a set of universal goals that would meet the urgent environmental, political, and socio-economic challenges facing our communities (UNDP, 2015). The Conference included 193 member…
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Renewable Energy Trends in Ontario: Benefits & Drawbacks
Renewable energy refers to energy produced from sources that do not deplete or can be replenished within a human’s lifetime. The most common examples include wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydropower. Renewable energy has become a growing source of energy production in some places throughout the developed world. As such, the global renewable energy supply is…
The Sustainable Switch 