Etiket: transition
Digital transition at ARTM | Future facial recognition software raises concerns
We’ve gotten used to unlocking our phones using facial recognition, but this technology could soon allow Greater Montreal public transit users to buy their fares. The Autorité régionale de transport…
Destruction of 37 bodies of water: damage necessary for an energy transition project, believes the Minister of the Environment
Environmental groups are denouncing the destruction of 37 bodies of water to store mining waste on the Côte-Nord, but this environmental damage is necessary for the completion of a project…
Energy Transition Project | The destruction of 37 lakes is necessary, according to Steven Guilbeault
(Montreal) Environmental groups are denouncing the destruction of 37 bodies of water to store mining waste on the Côte-Nord, but this environmental damage is necessary for the completion of a…
Tendering system | Another difficult digital transition
After the SAAQclic crisis last year, the migration of the Electronic Tendering System (SEAO) to a new platform managed by Quebec is also causing difficulties, this time in the construction…
Supreme Court to Study Transition Treatment for Transgender Minors
(Washington) The Supreme Court of the United States took up Monday for the first time the question of treatment for transgender minors, which deeply divides American society, by agreeing to…
the Senate commission of inquiry asks the oil group to accelerate its energy transition
In their report presented on Wednesday, the senators want to see the company become “a leader in renewable energies and clean mobility”. Published on 06/19/2024 4:27 p.m. Reading time: 2…
The Berri electrical substation, a project essential to Montreal’s energy transition
Hydro-Québec is well aware of the concerns raised by the construction of a new electrical substation in the Latin Quarter in Montreal, particularly those expressed in an opinion letter published…
Reclaim Finance calls for more “regulation” so that savers can “make an informed choice” on the ecological transition
Out of more than 8,000 units of account analyzed, “63% of these units of account contain at least one company that develops new fossil fuel projects”, deplores Ariel Le Bourdonnec,…
Low-income households must not be forgotten in the energy transition
This text is part of the special Energies notebook Experts are looking for avenues to counter the energy poverty of low-income households. While Quebec and Canada must decarbonize their energy,…
CAC 40 companies paid nearly four times more dividends to their shareholders in 2022 than in the ecological transition, points out Oxfam
Oxfam France is calling on the government to implement binding eco-responsibility for large companies. Published on 05/28/2024 00:05 Reading time: 3 min Sign of Oxfam France, in Paris, December 12,…
At a time of energy transition, copper is becoming more coveted than diamond or platinum
The revenge of copper? At a time of energy transition, this once modest material is becoming more coveted than diamond or platinum. Its price is soaring to records and the…
Understand | The unsuspected challenges of the transition
Despite the shift towards green growth undertaken more than 20 years ago, the planet is under more pressure than ever. Faced with this alarming situation, calls for degrowth are increasing.…
Writings | The dark side of the energy transition
The promise of a carbon-neutral world thanks to renewable energy hides a darker reality, which rarely makes the headlines. Over the next 30 years, we will have to extirpate as…
The objectives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions “are very distant” and “tend to delay the transition”, believes François Gemenne
Every Saturday we decipher climate issues with François Gemenne, professor at HEC, president of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Nature and Man and member of the IPCC. Published…
Research at the service of the digital transition
“More than ever, the future of the regions depends on digital technology,” declared Marie-Eve Proulx, then Minister Delegate for Regional Economic Development, in a press release in 2021. The government…
Porsche Macan EV test bench | A transition at full speed
If demand is there, Porsche promises to electrify its entire range by 2030. And the German brand does not intend to wait for this deadline before delivering the goods. The…
Edgard Leblanc Fils chosen as president of the transition council in Haiti
The brand new transitional council in Haiti chose a president on Tuesday in the person of politician Edgard Leblanc Fils, who promised to seek “consensus” so that the body can…
Haiti | The transition council chose a president
(Port-au-Prince) The brand new transitional council in Haiti chose a president on Tuesday in the person of politician Edgard Leblanc Fils, who promised to seek “consensus” so that the body…
Haiti | Edgard Leblanc Fils chosen as president of the transition council
(Port-au-Prince) The brand new transitional council in Haiti, set up after the resignation of the contested prime minister, on Tuesday chose a president for the body, the politician Edgard Leblanc…
Behind the door | Louise’s “little step by little step” transition*
The Press offers you each week a testimony which aims to illustrate what really happens behind the bedroom door, in privacy, far, far from statistics and standards. Today: Louise*, early…