By: Melissa Harris, Director, The Delphi Group    Climate ambition in North America is heating up.  Last week, Canada, the U.S. and a handful of other countries announced new climate targets at the U.S.-led virtual Leaders Summit on Climate. President Biden committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and Prime Minister Trudeau […]

My road to becoming the President of The Delphi Group started in a fire tower in Northern Alberta.  I grew up in a small town outside Montreal, with Laurentian forest as my backyard. Maybe that’s why I always felt deeply attached to nature.  As cheesy as it sounds, I also knew I wanted to change the world for the better—I just didn’t […]

By: Julia Zeeman and Puninda Thind, Consultants, The Delphi Group As countries, businesses and individuals reckon with the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the call for a “green recovery” has been heard around the world. While governments deploy stimulus packages and businesses pivot and pivot again, advocates for a green recovery are calling […]

By: Stephan Wehr, Vice President, Matt Beck, Director, and Kristine O’Rielly, Cleantech and Innovation Consultant, The Delphi Group   Before the global pandemic hit, the call for demonstrable climate action from businesses, often in the form of carbon targets, was growing steadily. Even as countries, businesses and individuals are grappling with the consequences of COVID-19, […]

The below opinion piece originally appeared in ‘Our Resilient Future’, a collection of opinion pieces by Canadian thought-leaders as part of the ICLEI Adaptation Changemakers project. The full Our Resilient Future collection can be viewed here.   By Paul Shorthouse, Senior Director, The Delphi Group   Climate change risks and opportunities are impacting all industries, […]

by Mike Gerbis, CEO of The Delphi Group and GLOBE Series   This week’s New York Times headline about COP25 says it all: “U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a ‘Lost’ Opportunity.” While negotiators worked into the wee hours of the final weekend at COP, they made no significant progress on ratcheting up […]

by Shanna Killen – Research Analyst, The Delphi Group   When it comes to simple habits you can gradually adopt to reduce your carbon footprint, do you know which of the following reduces the most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? a) Going beef-free one day per week. b) Wasting no food for one week. c) Lowering […]

By: Ted Ferguson, President, The Delphi Group    On the occasion of the launch of our beautiful new website, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where we’ve been, where we are today and, most importantly, where we need to go. When Delphi opened its doors a quarter century ago, we were essentially a scrappy startup working in an area – environmental strategy – […]