More than half of the population lives in urban areas and no less than seven out of ten people will live there by 2050, according to the World Bank. Cities are therefore key players in the fight against climate change. In Quebec, we are no exception (…)
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offers a lot of ideas and principles for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are ten concrete ideas, inspired by this report, that Quebec government could (…)
The Mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, announced at the Montreal Climate Summit last May that all buildings in the city will have to be powered exclusively by renewable energies by 2040 and that new constructions will have to be, for their part, zero (…)
If the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5°C melt like snow in the sun, the world can still hope not to exceed 2°C by the end of the century. This is the conclusion from a study recently published in the journal Nature which, however, comes (…)
In order to combat the climate crisis, Quebec political parties are currently escalating GHG reduction targets for 2030, while the 2020 objective, aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by 20% below 1990, was not reached. Unfortunately, the strategies (…)
In order to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, many representatives of the clean technology sector believe that the government must impose new measures for the award of public contracts and they hope that their call will be heard by the (…)
Quebec recently participated to the COP26 in Glasgow because, although the federated states are not officially signatories to the Paris Agreement, they still have a decisive role to play in terms of diplomacy and climate leadership. For many years, (…)
The State of New York has just granted the largest export contract ever made by Hydro Quebec. In fact, it has been confirmed that from 2025, Hydro Quebec will supply nearly 10.4 terawatt hours of electricity to the New York State, which represents (…)
It is with great pleasure that C-nergie welcomes Patrick Héroux as a new project manager to our team. Graduated from Sherbrooke University in 2007 in chemical engineering, Patrick subsequently completed a master degree in Eco Consulting in 2017 at (…)
The city of Montreal announced the implementation of a rating system for greenhouse gas emissions for its institutional and commercial buildings to be able to impose energy performance threshold on their owners. To achieve this goal, the city intends (…)
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