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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...


Why Prime Minister Harper’s climate needle will move in 2015
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...


The COP20 Desert Road Leads Somewhere
This time the global climate change talks were definitely not different. In Lima last week the global climate intelligentsia concluded...


Canada can’t hide any longer after U.S.-China climate deal
Originally Published in the Globe and Mail November 14, 2014 For so long it was so easy to do nothing. Canada could say it was...