Manitoba ranks low on green report card
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This article was published 08/06/2012 (5014 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Manitoba’s place on a newly released Green Provincial Report Card is shameful.
Corporate Knights, a company that focuses on clean capitalism by providing information that markets may use to develop green initiatives, released its third bi-annual Green Provincial Report Card today. Manitoba ranked 11th — with a grade of C+ — placing ahead of only Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The research team behind the report evaluated each province and territory under the following seven categories: air and climate, water, nature, transportation, waste, energy and buildings, and innovation. Most of the information used to rank the provinces and territories came from federal sources, and the team compared Canada’s 13 jurisdictions to each other.
Ontario received an A- on the report, the highest grade of all. The grade is the result of Ontario’s success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5 per cent since 1990, building green homes, and maintaining a clean technology sector. 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 – a commendable grade for the nation. To see such practices on a national scale would require cooperation, collaboration and information sharing across the country.
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/greenprovinces — ranks and grades all 13 provinces and territories.