Original articles and occasional shared reading on environmental assessment, climate strategy, and sustainability reporting — from the field and from the wider industry.
Ottawa has set a national floor of expectations for data centre development, provinces are building enforceable mechanisms on top of it, and municipalities are not waiting for either. What the three-level picture means for impact assessment, GHG accounting and compliance monitoring — including a self-supply requirement that may raise emissions rather than lower them.
Read more →Most of the discussion about AI in impact assessment concerns consultants and proponents. A comparative review of Canada, Hong Kong, the United States, Chile, England, Denmark and Australia asks a different question — what the statutory authorities themselves have actually built, and whether the evidence supports the claims being made for it.
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