Vancouver Sun

Businesses face both opportunities and threats as the pace of climate change accelerates, delegates to a Vancouver conference heard Thursday.

Insurers are racing to develop suites of new products that recognize climate-related risks, and engineers are scrambling to meet demand for infrastructure and green-energy projects.

Environmental Leader

Deloitte’s global organization and as many as 130 Deloitte member firm locations around the world are installing video conferencing services to cut costs associated with business travel. Nortel will provide and manage the service.

Toronto’s mayor on Tuesday launched an initiative to help residents fight global climate change as officials from major cities met in New York City for an environmental summit.

The Zerofootprint Toronto project, launched during the C40 Large Cities conference, combines aspects of social networking websites such as Facebook with an environmental footprint calculator.

“About 10,000 delegates from nearly 190 countries are in Bali today for a massive UN conference on climate change. The focus of the conference is to begin negotiations on an international agreement to fight climate change after 2012—when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires.”