This week:

  • Jordan Poppenk is joined in studio by Elena Jusenlijska and Brennan Louw, organizers of Canadians for Kyoto, a Canadian ENGO that is rallying individuals, businesses, labour unions, environmental agencies, and communities who support Canada’s recommitment to the Kyoto Protocol in nationwide marches on Sunday, March 11th.
  • Scott Hansen interviews with Doug MacDonald from the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Environment about the history and future of climate change policy in Canada and around the world.
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The headlines in brief:
  • The federal government committed its $962-million share of public transit projects in the Greater Toronto Area;
  • The Toronto Star reports that Toronto has been using about 15 per cent less salt on the roads over the last few years as a salute to growing environmental consciousness;
  • On Wednesday, Toronto’s Exhibition Place unveiled one of the largest trigeneration systems in Canada and the first system that is municipally-owned;
  • Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty remarked this week that the continuing gasoline shortage is a reminder of how the province needs to lessen its reliance on imported oil;
  • TD bank’s chief economist has come out in favour of taxing pollutants at the time they are produced;
  • Environmental regulators in the United States and Canada have developed a joint label for farm chemicals;
  • A report published by scientists this week in the journal Ambio indicates that so much mercury has accumulated in fish that there should be a worldwide public warning about eating seafood;
  • The US department of agriculture has given primary approval to a company that plans to grow rice that has been genetically modified to make human proteins;
  • The United Nations has finally received a greenhouse gas emissions report from the Bush administration that was more than a year overdue, and the results are not encouraging;
  • A report released last week by Beijing suggests that China will overtake the US in terms of greenhouse gas emissions by this year or next;
  • New research suggests that Asian aerosol pollution is having a wider effect on global weather and climate than was previously assumed;
  • A new UN-led alliance will develop global guidelines for the disposal of so-called ‘e-waste’, including computers, photocopiers and televisions.

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