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2012 Green Provincial Report Card released - Environmental Communication Options/Huff Strategy

2012 Green Provincial Report Card released

Jun 8th, 2012 4:31 AM

(Toronto, Ontario, June 8th, 2012) Corporate Knights released today its third bi-annual Green Provincial Report Card, with Ontario and British Columbia leading the pack in the race to become Canada’s greenest province or territory. The highest grade in the 2012 report went to Ontario, which received an A-. The province has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5 per cent since 1990, making it the only province to reach Kyoto emission-reduction targets. It also received high marks for building green homes and embracing energy retrofits for old ones, and for continuing to maintain a vibrant clean technology sector. Saskatchewan and Alberta landed at the back of the pack. “Despite Ontario and British Columbia receiving high grades, there’s room for vast improvement,” said lead researcher Erin Marchington. Corporate Knights calculated that if all provinces and territories achieved best practices in each of the seven categories that were measured the Canadian average would be 86 per cent, making the nation more than just an excellent student. But to pursue such best practices on a national scale will require much greater cooperation, collaboration and information sharing across the country. The research team evaluated each province/territory using a series of 35 indicators grouped into seven categories: air and climate, water, nature, transportation, waste, energy and buildings, and innovation. Building on previous green province reports, this year’s ranking methodology used the most current available data (ranging from 2008 to 2011). The majority of the information came through federal sources that allowed for direct comparisons between Canada’s 13 jurisdictions. The methodology was developed with the assistance of the Green Provinces Advisory Committee, made up of Faisal Moola, program director of terrestrial conservation and science at the David Suzuki Foundation, Sachi Gibson, technical and policy analyst at the Pembina Institute, and Jose Etcheverry, assistant professor of environmental studies at York University. The spring issue of Corporate Knights, distributed today through the Globe and Mail, compares how the 10 provinces did relative to each other, but the full report – available at www.corporateknights.com/greenprovincesranks and grades all 13 provinces and territories.
In addition to the Green Provincial Report Card, the spring edition of Corporate Knights features the magazine’s 11th-annual ranking of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. NOTE: All iPad and iPhone users can now download our free app and subscribe via their iTunes account to the new digital version of Corporate Knights.
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To schedule interviews with Corporate Knights publisher Toby Heaps or editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton, please contact: Don Huff, 416-972-7404, huffd@ecostrategy.ca About Corporate Knights: Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights Inc. is a Toronto-based media, research and financial products company focused on clean capitalism.