On the twelfth day of crazy carbon pricing my government gave to me, 12 EITE regulations stalling, 11 MPs a huffing, 10 provinces misaligning, 9 plans forgotten, 8 crazy talking points, 7 ways to keep emitting, 6-ty industrials a-puffing, 5 oil and gas subsidies, 4 flexibility mechanisms missing, 3 offset protocols forgotten, All compliance payments avoided, And a timbit for a barrel is too much. Merry Christmas

A version of this post was publishd by the Globe and Mail here: Sometimes, not often, it’s fun to watch Canadian climate policy. Take for example, the Prime Minister’s climate change moves of the last month. First, at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, the Prime Minister committed $300 million to the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund. Then a few weeks later he was up in the House of Commons extolling the economic craziness of climate policy. But just this week the Prime Minister te

This time the global climate change talks were definitely not different. In Lima last week the global climate intelligentsia concluded their most recent horse trading on how to increase ambition before 2020 and thereafter. In the end, it was a decidedly bracketed affair, with many items left undecided. Still, important groundwork was laid for COP 21 in Paris, 2015 where world leaders will come together to ratify a long-term global climate deal committing their countries to re