greenhouse gases
What would Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement mean for Canada?
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce this week that he will pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. What impact will the move have on the landmark climate accord and how will it affect Canada?
For the record: Obama’s Climate Action Plan
At 2 p.m. today at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama will deliver a much-touted speech on a new national policy to combat climate change.
Alberta’s carbon price — if you don’t have an opinion on it, you should
It might have a huge influence on federal regulation
‘A market-based solution’
Guess who wants to implement cap-and-trade?
‘It does so by establishing a price on carbon’
To this discussion, you can add this speech, Jim Prentice announcing “Canada’s Offset System for Greenhouse Gases” on June 10, 2009.
‘The suggestion that the regulations have been softened or weakened is a misperception’
As the Canadian Press previewed earlier this week, Peter Kent has announced regulations for the coal-fired electricity sector that are weaker than what the Harper government proposed a year ago.
The quiet cuts
The RCMP will close forensic labs in Halifax, Winnipeg and Regina. The consulate in Buffalo will be closed. The British Columbia government is unhappy with the planned closure of a Canadian Coast Guard station in Kitsilano. And a team of pollution monitors will be cut.
Lacking in reductions and projected costs
The environment commissioner tabled his spring report this morning.
Yes or no?
Megan Leslie didn’t get an answer from Joe Oliver yesterday, so she asked him again this afternoon to clarify his understanding of climate change. And then she asked him again. And then she asked him again. Here’s how that went.
Running out of juice
Electric cars are here, but is there a market for them?
Peter Kent’s brave stand
John Baird said the Liberal cap-and-trade plan was “unCanadian” and Stephen Harper said the NDP cap-and-trade plan would “wreak enormous havoc on the Canadian economy,” but Environment Minister Peter Kent apparently thinks cap-and-trade could still be pursued at some point.
‘The most aggressive GHG reduction efforts undertaken by any economy in the world’
Andrew Leach explains what Environment Minister Peter Kent has to sort out if we’re to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets.