Boeing Forms Alliance With Chinese Jet Maker

OTTAWA — Canada is all but certain to miss its Copenhagen Accord target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the country’s environmental watchdog warned Tuesday. And not only has the Harper government failed to introduce regulations to limit the amount carbon dioxide produced by the oil and gas sector, the fastest growing emitter, it “does not have an overall plan that maps out how Canada will achieve this target,” Julie Gelfand said in her first report as commissioner of the environment and sustainable development.

Some see only insurmountable climate change problems in the growth of oil and gas production in Western Canada. Others, like Switzerland’s ABB Group, see so many opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions they are planning aggressive expansion. Daniel Assandri, president and CEO of ABB’s Montreal-based Canadian subsidiary, said the company’s already large Canadian presence will increasingly tilt toward Alberta, where it is planning to double its business in the next five years by deploying technologies to make energy projects more efficient.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The federal government says new regulations for heavy-duty trucks will cut greenhouse-gas emissions and give truckers a break on fuel costs to boot. The Environment Department says the regulations will be phased in between now and the 2018 model year and will produce a cumulative reduction of 19.1 megatonnes of greenhouse emissions over the life of 2014-2018 model year vehicles. The regulations will cover vehicles such as full-size pick-ups, semi-trucks, garbage trucks and buses and will align with U.S. standards.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The federal government says new regulations for heavy-duty trucks will cut greenhouse-gas emissions and give truckers a break on fuel costs to boot. The Environment Department says the regulations will be phased in between now and the 2018 model year and will produce a cumulative reduction of 19.1 megatonnes of greenhouse emissions over the life of 2014-2018 model year vehicles. The regulations will cover vehicles such as full-size pick-ups, semi-trucks, garbage trucks and buses and will align with U.S. standards.

Beijing (AFP) - China and the US agreed ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement, with Beijing setting a goal for its emissions to peak "around 2030".

EDMONTON — Building the Energy East pipeline to bring oilsands bitumen to eastern Canadian refineries would increase the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions enough to wipe out all the gains caused by Ontario’s elimination of coal-fired power plants, says an environmental think-tank. Report author Clare Demerse of the Pembina Institute said that conclusion demonstrates that regulators should consider the proposed pipeline’s climate impacts in hearings on the project.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal safety investigators intensified their scrutiny of a Monday fire aboard a Boeing 787 as concerned investors sold shares in the aircraft maker for a second day. Boeing on Tuesday confirmed that the fire aboard a Japan Airlines plane appeared to have started in a battery pack for the plane's auxiliary power unit.

The world’s largest oil company sees emissions in the developing world surging 50%, a forecast that suggests the diplomatic push to draft an accord to curb global warming stands to fall short. The assessment, in a report Tuesday from an Exxon Mobil Corp. team of economists, scientists and engineers, shows how far the world is from cutting pollution blamed for climate disruption. It comes as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned envoys Tuesday at United Nations talks in Lima that the “window of opportunity” to slow climate change is closing.