Environment

The carbon offsetting market is worth billions, but insiders say it’s ineffective

Economists weigh in on what government should and shouldn't do with B.C.'s carbon tax

B.C.’s carbon tax will be permanently reduced for B.C. greenhouses by 80%.

As if the funding of forestry conservation projects through Pacific Carbon Trust offsets were not controversial enough, the B.C. government is now funding a study to explore the carbon sequestration potential of estuaries.

Urban forestry sees trees in a city as one ecosystem

The B.C. government and the Lake Babine First Nation signed an agreement today to collaboratively manage protected areas.

Metro Vancouver forum eyes high costs of living as threat to environmental goals

Two projects that received $6 million from the Pacific Carbon Trust dubbed ‘freeriders’ by John Doyle, whose report is slammed by environment minister

The Weir-Jones Group, a Vancouver engineering firm specializing in early detection systems for earthquakes, landslides and oil and gas pipeline leaks, has joined the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Private Sector Partnership.

The Pacific Carbon Trust leaked confidential information while being audited and spent $6 million of public money on two large carbon-reduction projects that fail the government's own additionality test, Auditor General John Doyle concludes in his much-anticipated audit of B.C.'s carbon neutral government.