http://www.thecaen.ca The latest Canadian environmental news curated and summarized – mini news bombs for you. http://www.thecaen.ca/main-streams/airline-industry-meets-to-discuss-reducing-ghgs/ Regimes The industry association, the Air Transport Action Group, hopes progress is made to find a market-based approach to reducing the air industry’s greenhouse gas emissions at a UN agency meeting in Montreal. The United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization is holding meetings this week and the industry association wants to see a global deal approved by 2016 and implemented by 2020. Options being considered are buying credits when airlines surpass baseline emissions, with some money flowing to research or an even more comprehensive emissions scheme. The European Union has paused their plans to tax the emissions of international airlines, while the ICAO attempts to craft a global solution. Read it all at the Winnipeg Free Press..... Fri, 17 May 2013 10:32:00 CDT http://www.thecaen.ca/main-streams/canadas-glaciers-a-major-contributor-to-sea-level-rise-says-study/ Meltlands Canada’s Arctic glaciers are the largest contributor to a world-wide melt of glaciers, says a new international study. The global glacier melt is contributing almost as much to sea-level rise as the melting of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets combined, says the study. Canada's glaciers are shrinking at twice the rate of 50 years ago, said the study published in the journal Science. Read it all at the Edmonton Journal..... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:59:00 CDT http://www.thecaen.ca/main-streams/harper-defends-keystone-and-says-technology-will-solve-climate-change/ Harperland Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the Keystone XL pipeline must go ahead because the oil will flow regardless by train. Harper attended a question and answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Read it all at the Times Colonist. Harper also said climate change will not be solved by capping economic growth; rather by major investments in technology and a global emissions regime. Environmentalists back in Canada said Harper was being disingenuous because his government canceled support for green energy development and gives subsidies to oil companies. Read it all at the Edmonton Journal..... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:54:00 CDT http://www.thecaen.ca/main-streams/clear-garbage-bag-bylaw-creates-backlash-in-rural-ontario/ Garbage Nazi A new bylaw requiring the use of clear plastic garbage bags had residents of Dufferin County screaming at their councillors. The law coming into effect June 1 would harmonize the policy across the county’s eight municipalities where a few already require clear bags. Requiring clear bags has shown to divert the amount of recylables ending up in the landfill by exposing the contents of garbage. The county’s bylaw allows for the bags to be stored in garbage cans and for one privacy bag. Read it all at the Toronto Star..... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:00 CDT http://www.thecaen.ca/main-streams/rising-food-prices-worry-canadian-shoppers/ Food Flying A new study from the Royal Bank of Canada says rising food prices are negatively impacting the Canadian economy. Food prices rose 2.4 per cent in 2012 and could rise another 4 per cent this year due to the severe drought conditions across the U.S. last year. Consumer confidence in the economy is falling and only 26 per cent of Canadians are optimistic about the economy. Nearly 30 per cent of Canadians believe the economy is deteriorating. Read it all at the London Free Press..... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:00 CDT