
Taking Stock: Canada’s GHG progress to 2030 and Opportunities for Collaborative Action
See Policy Brief here With an expanding mix of climate policies across the federation and the backdrop of increased ambition to mid-century under Canada’s ratification of the Paris Agreement, now is a good time to pause and take stock. As policy activity intensifies, routine assessments such as this one will become both more important and more frequent. Notably, as of 2018, the “Facilitative Dialogue” process enabled under the Paris Agreement will compel the nation to take st


More US inaction on climate change is good for Canada’s economy
With President-elect Trump and the Republicans now controlling all the levers of federal power in the United States, it seems reasonable to expect a significant backsliding on US climate change ambition. Indeed, my twitter feed this morning exploded in one big climate Armageddon with charts of coal stocks rising from the dead, articles on eviscerating the EPA and the impending decapitation of the Clean Power Plan. In Canada once again, the chorus of competitiveness neurosis i