Briefing to the PM on achieving Copenhagen, ramping up ambition post-2020 and not hurting hard worki
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...
The Benefits of Climate Action to Hard Working Canadian Families
A happy Earth Day to you. It seems every dollar of analytical effort and climate lobbying is now focused on shouting “price carbon”....
The Cost and GHG Implications of WCI Cap and Trade in Ontario
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...
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A Brief History of Canada's Climate Pledge Setting [its all about the PM]
Forgetting the past means we are likely to make the same mistakes again, or so goes the old adage. So, what can we learn from our GHG...
National GHG ambition has failed miserably, can we expect anything different from our iNDC?
Canada has failed miserably at aligning GHG policy with our stated ambition, whether Kyoto or Copenhagen. Given our track record can we...
Thinking about Canada's post-2020 climate ambition: INDC setting
With March 31 fast approaching, and Canada likely to miss a soft UNFCCC deadline to submit its Intended Nationally Determined...
Outsourcing Ontario’s Carbon Pricing is OK
Tomorrow, Ontario will release its much-anticipated discussion paper on the future of carbon pricing in the province. Figuring...
Justin Trudeau Talks Climate Policy (finally)
A version of this post was published by the Globe and Mail here Justin Trudeau has just come out and said that carbon pricing should be...
That zany Obama gets crazy on oil and gas
For about a year now there have been rumblings that Obama is getting serious about methane GHGs from oil and gas. For a while it was...
The 12 Days of Crazy Carbon Pricing
On the twelfth day of crazy carbon pricing my government gave to me, 12 EITE regulations stalling, 11 MPs a huffing, 10 provinces...
