Climate Action Matters

Counter to the international advice from science, Directions in Canada’s issued under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability ACT and The Emissions Reduction Plan do not reduce oil production to achieve targets. Instead, there’s a reliance on plugging leaks and electrifying some processes to produce more “clean” oil. Improved awareness on this is required to change …

Having Cake and Eating It: How Canada’s Emissions Reduction Plan pretends to address global GHGs but actually continues to expand Canada’s oil production. Read More »

The quality of Climate related discussions, including consultations on Canada’s Climate action Plan, can be improved with more understanding of the mandate of the IPCC and the content of IPCC AR 6 Reports.   There’s a lot of climate news going on these days, and most of us have definitely heard about the IPCC and …

Canada’s Climate Action Plan Does Not Fully Address IPCC Report Findings Read More »

The Great Derangement, by Amitav Ghosh, is an instructive discussion of how the creative imagination interacts with the phenomenon of human-made climate change and it has applicability for Canada. The Great Derangement is this failure in the literary imagination to tell stories that help us make sense of this era of climate change. There are …

Climate Change and The Imagination: A Review of The Great Derangement Read More »

Climate Change denial, although held by a minority of Canadians, is a significant risk to addressing climate change because it discredits information, slows progress on urgent policy changes and distracts people from taking action.   We’ve all heard this song before! Paid spokespeople, posing as science professionals, are brought into the debate (sometimes with funding) …

The Problem with Climate Change Denial in Canada Read More »

The persisting Canadian public opinion on the environmental reflects deeper aspects of Canadian identity and can be leveraged to build awareness of Canada’s actual record on the environment and advocate for more assertive climate change policy directions   There was this time back in the day when you felt like you could just walk through …

The Policy and Opinion Gap: Who’s Afraid of Canadian Culture? Read More »

Abstract Improved information on how carbon pricing policy approaches work and where they are used can improve overall support for carbon pricing strategies and build awareness about their applicability and limitations.   There’s been a lot of talk about gas prices these days. Obviously, the tragic war in the Ukraine does not help matters at …

So, We Actually Like Carbon Pricing? Read More »