Government of Canada updates efforts to protect the environment and communities by addressing “forever chemicals”

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July 15, 2024 – Gatineau, Quebec The Government of Canada is committed to ensuring a clean and safe environment for every generation. Everyone deserves access to clean air and water. That’s why the Government is taking action to tackle pollution from all sectors of the economy including through modernized tools like the Canadian Environmental Protection

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How Canada’s pollution pricing system works

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Backgrounder How Canada’s pollution pricing system works Every day, we see the increasing impacts of climate change, and they’re costing Canadians more and more. Climate-related impacts are already costing average Canadian households $720 per year and are likely to rise to $2,000 per year by 2050 without significant action to reduce emissions. A price on

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CGU publishes open data on active transparency assessments

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A partir do mês de julho, a Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) disponibiliza, em formato aberto, os dados das avaliações de transparência ativa, realizadas em mais de 320 órgãos e entidades do Poder Executivo Federal. A primeira versão da base de dados pode ser acessada no Portal Brasileiro de Dados Abertos e no site da CGU.

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Information Commissioner calls for water companies to be crystal clear with public over sewage pollution

“In the past, water companies have argued that disclosing information could prejudice ongoing investigations. It is now clear, following this tribunal ruling, that this defence should not stand in the way of transparency – just because information could be relevant to an ongoing investigation does not necessarily mean that it cannot or should not be

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Environment: Barbaro, Memorandum of Understanding signed with UN-Habitat for sustainable sports development and dialogue with IOC

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New York, 15 luglio - “Oggi al ‘Forum Politico di Alto Livello delle Nazioni Unite sullo sviluppo sostenibile’ di New York, abbiamo firmato un protocollo d’intesa con il Programma delle Nazioni Unite per gli insediamenti umani (UN-Habitat), alla presenza di Michal Mlynár, Assistente del Segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite e Direttore esecutivo ad interim di

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