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Byline: Jeffrey Jones; Staff Ranell Scott is steward of the West Texas ranch land her family has owned since 1900. It's a role she takes seriously. To do it, Ms. [...]

Alberta has restricted its once-booming renewable energy sector, yet Texas is embracing the industry as a money maker that co-exists with oil and gas, In October, 2022, The Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Joneshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-alberta-energy-transition-corridor/, where a multibillion-dollar renewables boom was transforming the landscape. With renewables now stalled or in retreat in the province, he travelled [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The body developing Canada's version of new international climate and sustainability disclosure rules will issue its first reporting standards in December, and it will be up [...]

Investors have called for the rules to apply in financial markets so they can judge companies’ non-financial risks tied to climate change, The body developing Canada’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-proceeds-with-green-investing-guidebook-leaves-door-open-for/ will issue its first reporting standards in December, and it will be up to regulators and governments to decide if and when those standards will [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Global oil demand is projected to peak by the end of the decade, as climate and energy-security risks push countries to accelerate electrifying their economies to [...]

International Energy Agency says demand for oil will peak before 2030 and will gradually decrease through the following decade, Global oil demand is projected to peak by the end of the decade as climate and energy-security risks push countries to accelerate electrifying their economies to meet surging demand, the [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The federal government is proceeding with a long-awaited guidebook that certifies whether projects meet green and transitionary investment criteria - and leaving the door open for [...]

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the ‘made-in-Canada taxonomy’ will start covering priority industrial sectors within the next year, The federal government is proceeding with a long-awaited guidebook that certifies whether projects meet green and transitionary investment criteria – and leaving the door open for some natural gas to [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Jones, Niall McGee Oil prices jumped 2.6 per cent on Tuesday as global concerns grew that military conflict in the Middle East could escalate and threaten production facilities [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Jones; Staff Contentious changes to the federal Competition Act aimed at preventing corporate greenwashing leave lingering risks for investors of falling victim to false or exaggerated environmental claims, [...]

There were no reports of attacks on oil-production or export facilities, but experts say expanding hostilities in the region could bring new risk premium to the market, Oil prices jumped 2.6 per cent on Tuesday as global concerns grew that military conflict in the Middle East could escalate and threaten production facilities in Iran and other major [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Sweden's Northvolt AB is cutting a fifth of its global work force as it reins in expansion plans in the face of a downturn in demand [...]

Spokesperson for Minister for Economy, Innovation and Energy said the company’s $7-billion battery factory near Montreal is not affected by Northvolt’s cuts, Sweden’s Northvolt AB is cutting a fifth of its global work force as it reins in expansion plans in the face of a downturn in demand forhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/electric-vehicles/batteries, raising new questions [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Northvolt AB, the Swedish battery maker building a $7-billion factory in Quebec, said on Monday it will shrink its operations in Europe and cut jobs as [...]

Not all institutions agree whether a green taxonomy should include new natural gas exploration and production among certified transition-related investments, Canadian institutional investors are growing impatient that Ottawa has yet to formalize a guidebook for sustainable finance, according to a new survey, with some saying the country risks losing out [...]

Battery maker’s announcement comes as several auto makers temper plans to slow rollout and expansion of electric vehicles, Northvolt AB, the Swedish battery maker building a $7-billion factory in Quebec, said on Monday it will shrink its operations in Europe and cut jobs as a slowdown in electric-vehicle [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff ESG AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE REPORTER Canadian institutional investors are growing impatient that Ottawa has yet to formalize a guidebook for sustainable finance, according to a new [...]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — José Ramírez had three hits including his 36th home run, drove in two and stole his 40th base as the Cleveland Guardians beat the St. Louis [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Algoma Steel Inc.'s smokestacks have been a fixture on the bank of the St. Marys River at the eastern end of Lake Superior for more than [...]

The 5,200-square-metre facility, scheduled for completion by the end of 2025, is aimed at bolstering reliability of power grids and industrial electricity storage, Malahat Nation and Energy Plug Technologies Corp. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/PLUG-CN/ are launching construction on a $57-million battery assembly factory on Vancouver Island, a venture the First Nation hopes will provide it with [...]

The board did not give specifics behind Charles-Antoine St-Jean’s departure, saying only that ‘this decision reflects his personal priorities’, The chair of the organization in charge of overseeing Canada’s adoption of international sustainability reporting standards has stepped down, prompting a search for a replacement at a key time in [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, MARIEKE WALSH, ERIC ATKINS CALGARY, OTTAWA, TORONTO -- Canada's unionized railway workers on Friday urged the federal labour tribunal to back their right to strike, adding more [...]

Although CN has declared its lockout over, the union issued a strike notice at the Montreal-based rail carrier for Monday at 10 a.m. ET, Canada’s unionized railway workers on Friday urged the federal labour tribunal to back their right to strike, adding more risk that Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. and Canadian National Railway [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Canadian lumber industry and government officials say they will defend the country's economic interests as they seek a resolution after the U.S. Department of Commerce nearly [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. said on Friday it agreed to sell its renewable energy business for up to US$2.5-billion in a quest to pay down [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Matt Price doesn't wield the financial clout of a big-time investor, but when it comes to efforts to hold major companies accountable for their environmental pledges, [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, JEFFREY JONES A carbon-reduction startup created by one of Canada's most successful technology entrepreneurs has unveiled its first three projects to capture climatewarming greenhouse gas from the [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, EMMA GRANEY Increasingly destructive wildfires, like the one that ravaged Jasper, are taking their toll on the country's tourism industry, forcing operators to prepare for emergencies and [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Some of Canada's largest institutional investors support quick adoption of a slate of new sustainability reporting standards while energy and mining companies want disclosure to remain [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, EMMA GRANEY CALGARY -- Canadian National Railway Co. suspended freight service on its main line through Jasper, Alta., and other companies took stock of the impact from [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The federal ethics commissioner has ruled the former chair of Sustainable Development Technology Canada contravened conflictof-interest rules when she failed to recuse herself from funding decisions [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Adoption of new international sustainability reporting standards is moving quicker than expected, with countries accounting for more than 55 per cent of global GDP, including Canada, [...]

The number of jurisdictions enforcing reporting rules for bolstering climate finance and eliminating greenwashing continues to rise, a year after the International Sustainability Standards Board’s first published them, Adoption of new international sustainability reporting standards is moving quicker than expected, with countries accounting for more than 55 per cent of global GDP, including Canada, signing on to the [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The Competition Bureau has published guidance on what might constitute corporate greenwashing as it begins consultations over how it will implement Ottawa's contentious new measures aimed [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Extreme heat across Alberta and British Columbia fuelled numerous wildfires on the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes and choking much of the [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff More than half of Canadian businesses took financial hits last year from extreme weather, yet a large majority of executives say their companies lack the time [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Ottawa is making foreign investment in critical minerals more restrictive as the mining industry seeks capital to develop the raw materials that will be key to [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Several Canadian oil companies and lobby groups have added disclaimers to their websites and socialmedia feeds - in one case, scrubbing all content - in response [...]

Byline: PIPPA NORMAN, JEFFREY JONES Business Development Bank of Canada is committing $250-million in financing, training and investment funding for companies led by Black, Indigenous and female entrepreneurs. The funds [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff ESG AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE REPORTER The CEOs of Canada's five largest banks insist they are serious about funding the transition to low-carbon energy, but told a [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The world's largest cement company has launched a test of technology developed by an Ottawabased startup to process carbon emissions and make low-carbon concrete to help [...]

Parity says Idealist Capital contributed to its Series B financing, joining the eight-year-old company’s existing backers, A Toronto-based company with technology that promises to lower energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has raised $25-million from a Canadian impact investor to expand in the United [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff A Toronto-based company with technology that promises to lower energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has raised $25-million from a Canadian impact investor to [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Ottawa is betting a public-service veteran and former academic can put its scandal-plagued greentechnology funding agency back on track as it enters a new era of [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Ottawa's main funding arm for early-stage green technology is being stripped of its independence and folded into another federal agency after the Auditor-General detailed a series [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff A prominent investment company focusing on environmental and social issues has terminated one of its portfolio managers after a hateful private social-media message attributed to him [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The union representing Canada's auto workers sees the push to build up the supply chain for electric vehicles as key to a renaissance for its members, [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. has joined a Calgarybased company that is pushing for Indigenous participation in energy transition projects for a proposal to build a [...]

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