Prime Minister, The UN’s timeline requires Canada to submit a post-2020 GHG target before the end of June. With the first step in our strategy now complete, signalling last week we would not align with the US on its 2025 GHG target, we now need to finalize our pledge. In this briefing, I outline one scenario where Canada makes a realistic post-2020 GHG pledge while ramping up ambition to close the gap to our 2020 targets. In a seperate note I outline a pure political move th

A happy Earth Day to you. It seems every dollar of analytical effort and climate lobbying is now focused on shouting “price carbon”. While our collective interrogation of carbon pricing continues to be useful, and significant progress has been made by subnationals, there are still significant headwinds. Exhibit A, yesterday’s federal #Budget2015 that once again swept climate policy away from hard working Canadian families. So, what’s wrong? Well simply, we continue to talk ab

Ontario is going cap and trade. Now is therefore a good time to put into the public domain some initial results on the cost and GHG implications of the WCI system applied to Ontario. Outlined below in this post are the assumptions and data sources used to estimate the cost and GHG implications in 2020 of Ontario joining the WCI. The information underlying the analysis in the infographic above will change in time, as design features are revealed, but the analysis provides a fi