CK Weekly Roundup

A quick, clear explanation for why parking minimums hurt cities Minimum parking standards – policies that require developers to build a certain amount of parking

Global emissions dropped in 2015 New data published Monday by a global team of researchers show that sharp declines in Chinese coal burning and a

Bruce Power to spend $13 billion to refurbish 6 nuclear units Privately owned Bruce Power will invest $13 billion to refurbish the world’s largest nuclear

Allianz to cut investments in companies using coal in favour of renewable energy Germany’s Allianz SE, one of the world’s largest financial asset managers, said

The overvaluation trap Professor Roger Martin has a new piece out in the Harvard Business Review discussing the problem of equity valuation in the oil

Peabody Energy agrees to greater disclosures of financial risks Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest private sector coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures

China burns much more coal than reported, complicating climate talks China, the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to

New Liberal government set to change course on environment, climate change policy Monday night saw Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party swept into power in Canada with

Canada’s banks urged to put a carbon price on portfolios A group that advocates for responsible investment is urging Canada’s big banks to be more

Ontario electricity operator offers money for cutting power consumption Ontario’s electricity operator is asking its customers to bid on contracts that would see them paid

Mark Carney warns investors face ‘huge’ climate change losses The governor of the Bank of England has thrown down the gauntlet to the fossil fuel

Companies accelerate use of carbon pricing The number of companies putting a price on their carbon pollution has risen sharply in the past 12 months

Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities Germany’s largest utilities are facing their biggest challenge yet: Provisioning enough cash to dismantle the

2015 Sustainable Stock Exchange report released in London Corporate Knights’ Measuring Sustainability Disclosure: Ranking the World’s Stock Exchanges 2015 report was officially released this week at

Quebec and Newfoundland competing for hydropower export market Newfoundland Premier Paul Davis says a potential deal between Hydro-Quebec and a New England energy company won’t

Canadian Medical Association votes to divest fossil fuel holdings The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) will divest its holdings in fossil-fuel companies, a move doctors hope

Norway fund excludes four Asian groups over palm oil links Norway’s $870-billion (U.S.) oil fund decided this week to exclude four of Asia’s biggest companies

Stinking seaweed piling high on beaches in tourism-dependent Caribbean The picture-perfect beaches that people expect when visiting the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats

White House unveils final Clean Power Plan President Barack Obama formally unveiled his administration’s Clean Power Plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants

U.S. companies pledge financial, political support for U.N. climate deal Thirteen big name American companies on Monday announced $140 billion in low-carbon investments to lend

At the mercy of the Delhi water mafia A quarter of Delhi’s households live without a piped-water connection, with most of the rest receiving water

A third of Canadians want plug-in vehicles, but less than 1 per cent are buying them. What gives? Researchers at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) have found that

Obama announces plan to make more American workers eligible for overtime pay President Obama announced on Monday a proposed change to the overtime rules that

Is shared-equity housing the wave of the future? Driven by below-normal home ownership among Millennials, some communities are coming up with an interesting incentive called

A full-time minimum-wage job won’t get you a 1-bedroom apartment anywhere in America There is no state in the U.S. where a full-time, minimum-wage worker

John Podesta: Legacy maker Currently serving as Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager for the 2016 election, John Podesta is not widely known outside of the Washington

How corporate wellness programs can hurt your health Despite the growing popularity of wellness programs, it’s not clear that they work.  A new book by

Think California’s drought is bad? Arizona’s is going to be much worse. Last week, Lake Mead, which sits on the border of Nevada and Arizona,

Coal has a bad week Bank of America declared its intention to cut off its financing for coal extraction projects, the company announced at its