Carbon pricing systems, intended to help Canada reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and fund local green projects, have now been established in all provinces and territories across Canada. However, on closer examination, their implementation has …
Read MoreLast October, the European Union and Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). Shortly thereafter, in early November, both ratified the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, committing them to achieving specific …
Read MoreCanada is the world’s fourth largest producer of both conventional and unconventional crude oil. Unlike most other major producers, Canada has essentially one export market: the United States. Crude and refined oil exports from Canada …
Read MoreOne of Prime Minister Trudeau’s many commitments at the COP21 climate conference held in Paris in December 2015 was to meet Canada’s intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) emissions reduction target. The target, originally specified by the …
Read MoreOn Oct. 7, 1966, Joey Smallwood, then premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, wrote in his daybook, “Praise be to God!” Small wonder, since the day before then-premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec had authorized Hydro-Québec to …
Read MoreFor much of the post-Second World War period, the growth of many national economies was closely correlated with an increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The strong coupling of economic growth and GHG emissions has …
Read MoreThe federal government’s proposed Atlantic Regional Transmission Loop is being presented as a way to fight climate change by getting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia off coal. However, it might also have the unintended consequence …
Read MoreIn January, as part of the federal government’s emissions reduction program, Environment and Climate Change Canada announced that it would be imposing a carbon pricing system on any province that does not have an acceptable …
Read MoreAt last December’s COP25 climate conference in Madrid, two things were made clear: global greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, and they need to be reduced rapidly if there is to be any chance of …
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