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28 Feb 2007, 6:36 am
The Ecology Action Centre has called on Mark Parent, Nova Scotia's environment minister, to reject the proposed Maple LNG terminal and Keltic petrochemical facilities, which received a conditional recommendation last week from the province's Environmental Assessment Board. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 4:15 pm
Those charities audited include Amnesty International Canada and Pen Canada, as well as some of Canada’s most prominent environmental charities, including the David Suzuki Foundation, Tides Canada, West Coast Environmental Law, the Pembina Foundation, Environmental Defence, Equiterre and the Ecology Action Centre.Since many of the audited groups have been highly critical of government action, many have expressed the fear that the new audit policy is either intended… [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 4:33 pm
Since the statutory causes of action for secondary market losses were introduced 17 years ago, there have been 127 statutory secondary market class action cases in Canada. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 9:44 am
The groups facing additional scrutiny include the David Suzuki Foundation, Tides Canada, West Coast Environmental Law, the Pembina Foundation, Environmental Defence, Equiterre, and the Ecology Action Centre. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 8:30 am
Blog posts & press:Climate Mobility Africa Research Network urges governments at COP27 to act now for protection of displaced people (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]Empowering Migrants during Crises: Climate Action in South-East Asia (IOM Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]How do IDPs and refugees fit within traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge of disasters? [read post]
20 Sep 2012, 12:46 pm
But it neglects two critical factors in the success of its predecessors: hard number goals, and actions to reach them. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 6:49 am
In 2015, the Ecology Action Centre initiated a claim against the Minister of the Environment and Aquabounty Canada Inc., a biotechnology company that owns the rights to genetically engineered Atlantic salmon (AquAdvantage Salmon). [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 6:15 am
" See also related post on The Conversation.Climate Change and the Future of Human Mobility: Evidence Summary, Thematic Brief, no. 1 (IOM, Nov. 2022) [text]Climate change, disasters and displacement of the most vulnerable in the Americas (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]COP 27 and climate-related migration and displacement (USCRI, Oct. 2022) [text]Developing Indicators on Displacement for Disaster Risk Reduction (IOM & IDMC, Oct. 2022) [access]Disaster Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A… [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 10:00 am
Beyond biomedical frameworks, it draws on socio-ecological models to inform assessments and integrated models of care to improve health and health equity. [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 8:25 am
In 1990, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) was formed, led by environmental activist Ken Sara Wiwi.[12] The Ogoni took a variety of actions to raise the profile of their cause including drafting an Ogani Bill of Rights, which called for control over their own affairs, protection of the environment and ecology and adequate representation.[13] On occasion, the Ogoni disturbed oil operations, under the direction of either MOSOP or the more radical National… [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 10:25 am
You may find our call for action of interest. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 12:03 pm
The Institute for Fisheries Resources, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Golden Gate Salmon Association, Kennebec Reborn, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity, Ecology Action Centre, Friends of the Earth, Food and Water Watch, and Center for Food Safety challenged the FDA’s November 19, 2015 decision approving an application by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. to develop, market, and sell for human… [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 9:04 pm
Confirmed speakers and panelists: Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac and Tel-Aviv University), Professor of Philosophy and former chairperson of B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Dean Karlan (Yale), Professor of Economics and founding director of Innovations for Poverty Action, Gerry Mackie (UCSD), Professor of Political Science and consultant to UNICEF, Thomas Pogge (Yale), Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and the founding… [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 8:02 am
DiMento and Cliff Ellis URBAN ECOLOGY. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 10:58 am
They highlight the need for multi-stakeholder dialogue, renewed multi-lateralism and transformational collective action for the next decade and beyond, in fostering people-centred government and business responses and sustainable development that leaves no one behind. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 1:22 pm
Sanjana Hattotuwa is a Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation and PhD candidate at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS), University of Otago. ### Related reading and material Policy brief on Re-imagining responses to extremism: The importance of context, culture and communityVideo and text of presentation on Reimagining Extremism: Context, culture, community and countryICT4Peace and the Christchurch Call SummitICT4Peace input to Christchurch Call… [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 6:38 am
Burdon equates this human centred paradigm with the historical view that the Earth was situated at the centre of the universe. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 4:00 am
The actions of a tribunal have an impact on all the users of a tribunal services (parties and representatives). [read post]
2 Oct 2021, 7:59 am
[testimony]Nyrola Elimä, a supply chain analyst and coauthor of a recent study, from the Helena Kennedy Centre’s Forced Labour Lab at Sheffield Hallam University, on the scope of forced labor in the solar supply chain in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
In 1992 a chemical spill near the band office and daycare centre led to moving the daycare farther from the reserve boundaries to better protect the children. [read post]
