Catalyzing the opportunity of the North Pacific green corridor
The North Pacific Green Corridor presents a unique, sustainable model for future growth in green transport and trade that other jurisdictions can learn from and replicate.
Canada doesn’t have climate leaders: Bill Henderson
Re: “Will the real climate leaders stand up?” (The Hill Times, by Keith Brooks and Aly Hyder Ali, Nov. 27). We don’t have climate leaders. Canada has never met its (woefully inadequate) climate targets. We continue to do terrible damage to every future generation and the species with which we share creation. If we were […]
COP28 and climate science
Climate scientists are unanimously terrified by the speed at which things are moving, but also relieved that the crisis is finally getting some serious attention from both the public and the governments.
‘Unparalleled opportunity’: Public Policy Forum report urges Canada to take greater leadership on Paris Agreement, global carbon market
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he would like to see new methane regulations to ensure that the oil and gas sector reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030, ‘which are the most ambitious targets in the world.’
A burning platform for a national fire administration
Creating a Canadian Fire Administration could be one of the most consequential policy tools in the history of fire and emergency management in Canada. Fire chiefs are willing to help make this happen. We hope policy leaders will take our advice seriously.
Federal government can do more to help aviation industry get to 2050 target
Capital expenditure tax claims like SR&ED could make the difference between an advanced manufacturing facility in aviation being built in Canada or not.
Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap
Draft regulations for the Liberal government’s long-awaited oil and gas cap are “coming very soon,” according to a spokesperson in the Environment Minister’s office.
World leaders should adjust their global CO2 emissions strategy
Taking an alternative look at how to deal with the energy transition would be a better strategy than crying that the sky is falling while you hope to hold it up with your finger.
Will the real climate leaders please stand up?
Beyond COP28, the question is, what story will parties tell on fighting climate change when the next election comes? Will they be able to say they reigned in oil and gas emissions? Or will it be the same story about carbon pricing, more unkept promises and missed targets?
Senators caught in the middle as government and opposition dig in their heels on carbon tax exemption for farmers
Conservative MP Ben Lobb’s private member’s bill made it through the House last March with support from all opposition MPs. Any amendments in the Senate would send it back, and Conservatives say the Liberals will bury it.
