Canada’s 2024 National Inventory Report shows Canada is successfully reducing emissions

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May 2, 2024 – Gatineau, Quebec Cutting the pollution that is fuelling costly climate change while building a strong, sustainable Canadian economy to create jobs and invest in a competitive, decarbonizing world is the key to success in the 21st century. The latest National Inventory Report confirms Canada has bent the curve and is reducing

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Where Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come from: 2024 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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Backgrounder Environment and Climate Change Canada published Canada’s 2024 National Inventory Report on May 2, 2024. This report details pollution from seven greenhouse gases (GHGs) produced by the Canadian economy from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 2022. Canada has published an annual national inventory since 1996 Since 2016, with Canada’s first national climate plan

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EPA Announces Final Rule to Protect Water Quality Where Tribes have Treaty and Reserved Rights

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EPA Announces Final Rule to Protect Water Quality Where Tribes have Treaty and Reserved Rights May 2, 2024 Contact Information EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON  – Today, May 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule that will help protect water quality where Tribes hold and assert rights to aquatic and aquatic-dependent

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New rules for better disposal of electrical devices, e-cigarettes and batteries

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Ziel der Gesetzesänderung ist es, mehr alte Elektrogeräte zu sammeln, um ihre wertvollen Rohstoffe für ein hochwertiges Recycling zurück zu gewinnen, und zugleich die Sicherheit der Entsorgung zu erhöhen. Künftig sollen Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher ausgediente Elektrogeräte noch öfter im Handel zurückgeben. Damit das gelingt, sollen Informationen im Handel verbessert und die Rückgabemöglichkeiten erweitert werden. So

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UK helps secure progress towards new legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution

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Progress has been made to agree a global treaty to end plastic pollution by the end of the year in the fourth session of negotiations held this week. The fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) held in Canada, saw over 2,500 delegates, representing 170 Members States, come together and exchange views on the ambitious treaty that

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