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Climate change

Tackling climate change in Canada requires global action

Posted by Roy Culpeper · April 18, 2019 9:32 AM

As Canada warms twice the rate as the rest of the world, it is in our interest to play a leading role on the global stage to facilitate greater collective action to address climate change. [1]

 

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BC leads the way to a better future for people and planet

Posted by Rick Smith · December 06, 2018 10:11 AM

Maybe it was the months of smoke-filled skies or the flash floods following hard on the heels of long droughts. Or maybe it was mountainsides covered in beetle-killed trees or glaciers melting to slivers of ice. Whatever the reason, British Columbia has got the message when it comes to climate change.

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Why a Carbon Fee and Dividend now makes more sense than ever for Canada

Posted by Lars Osberg · October 15, 2018 3:22 PM

Now that Manitoba has joined Ontario and Saskatchewan in opposition to a carbon tax, what are the realistic political options for the federal government?  Economists overwhelmingly support carbon pricing as the most economically efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emission and combat climate change. But should the federal government now just accept that Canadian conservatives have successfully framed it as a “job-killing tax” whose implementation will “hurt the economy”? Have Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer and other Conservatives been successful in nurturing the suspicion that carbon pricing is just another tax grab by government that will make “ordinary Canadians” worse off? Is the idea now politically dead?

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Ontario’s Climate Plan and the Promise of Mobilizing Markets and Society

Posted by Brendan Haley · June 20, 2016 11:51 AM

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Ontario released its much anticipated climate action plan, and the reviews are in. There are accolades and constructive criticisms.

A particularly scathing criticism came from a Globe and Mail editorial that suggests the government could have “simply brought in a carbon price and stopped there”. The Globe claims that price signals could have done the job and left more up to “individual choice”, while achieving emissions reductions at minimum cost. This is a policy based on a narrow and ultra-orthodox reading of neoclassical economics, and it is good that Ontario did not limit itself to carbon pricing.

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Climate policy and Canadian social democracy

Posted by Brendan Haley · April 27, 2016 2:07 PM

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Recent events have triggered an important discussion on the Left’s approach to climate change policy. The Leap Manifesto is one expression of the desire to transition to a carbon neutral economy while creating a more just and “caring” society.

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Moving from good optics to sustained action on climate change

Posted by Matthew Paterson · November 26, 2015 10:25 AM

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The new Canadian government has certainly shot off the starting blocks at breakneck speed on climate policy. Catherine McKenna was more or less packing for a ministerial meeting in Paris while swearing her oath to become Minister of Environment and Climate Change. 

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Statement on Alberta Climate Leadership Plan

Posted by Rick Smith · November 22, 2015 3:16 PM

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On a public policy Richter scale, Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan is an 11. It is enormously positive and forward-looking and will yield measurable benefits for the health and quality of life of Albertans. Significantly, the new plan is supported by oil industry leaders, environmental organizations and other important stakeholders.

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Federal government can lead on climate in Paris. Here's how

Posted by Geoff Stiles · November 19, 2015 3:45 PM

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The recent Broadbent Institute and Mowat Centre report, Step-Change: Federal Policy Ideas Towards a Low-Carbon Canada, appears at a critical time. Intended to provide concrete examples of mitigation policies that might be adopted in the long run by the new federal government, it is also a timely reminder of the need for Canada to revise its approach to negotiating an agreement in Paris.

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses the Progress Gala

Posted by Broadbent Institute · November 16, 2015 4:54 PM

 

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley spoke at the Broadbent Institute's Progress Gala in Toronto on November 12. Here is a condensed copy of her prepared remarks. 

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Serious climate action requires emission reduction targets

Posted by Matthew Paterson · October 13, 2015 10:17 AM

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Justin Trudeau has announced that the Liberals “won’t set a specific emissions target” for greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change. His reasoning is that, “what we need is not ambitious political targets. What we need is an ambitious plan to reduce our emissions in the country.”

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