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ISO 14064

Aug 2
4 min

More ambition, please - corporate GHG emission reduction targets in Alberta's oil and gas sector.

Last month’s blog post presented a visualization of Alberta’s GHG emissions since 1990. This showed how the oil and gas sector has become...

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Graham Harris

Jun 18
2 min

A Visualization of Alberta's GHG Emissions since 1990

What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.

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Graham Harris

Feb 4
1 min

A disappearing light?

This morning’s papers featured some rather unfortunate news for our namesake insect, the firefly. As we talked about in a previous post, ...

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Graham Harris

Sep 4, 2019
2 min

What is the global carbon budget?

We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple definiti...

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Yes, even in Alberta, an electric car makes good environmental sense.

Graham Harris

Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Yes, even in Alberta, an electric car makes good environmental sense.

Everyone knows that Alberta has a “dirty” electricity grid. So, in our province, an electric car can’t actually make good environmental s...

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What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 2 of 2.

Graham Harris

Apr 16, 2019
2 min

What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 2 of 2.

In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) and how they are used to equate releases of different ...

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What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 1 of 2.

Graham Harris

Mar 26, 2019
2 min

What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 1 of 2.

There are many different greenhouse gases (for a primer on what a greenhouse gas is, see my earlier post), some of which last longer in t...

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What is a greenhouse gas? Or, why climate change and bread have more in common than you think.

Graham Harris

Jan 28, 2019
3 min

What is a greenhouse gas? Or, why climate change and bread have more in common than you think.

I don’t like to make assumptions. While climate change has received a lot of media attention over the last couple of decades, I still don...

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