Heating Up, Backing Down: Evaluating recent climate policy progress in Canada
This is a co-publication by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change research program (ACW). It assesses the climate policy progress of Canadian governments over the past two years with respect to long-term greenhou...
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ftyorkuniv:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/39322 2023-05-15T17:22:36+02:00 Heating Up, Backing Down: Evaluating recent climate policy progress in Canada Mertins-Kirkwood, Hadrian 2019-06 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10315/39322 en eng Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 203 http://hdl.handle.net/10315/39322 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/heating-backing-down https://www.adaptingcanadianwork.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/203_Mertins-Kirkwood-Hadrian_Heating-Up-Backing-Down.pdf Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work under the following conditions: the work must be attributed to the CCPA; you may not use this work for commercial purposes; you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. CC-BY-NC-ND Climate change Climate change policy Canada British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian Territories Carbon pricing Fossil fuels Provincial policy Emissions reductions Report 2019 ftyorkuniv 2022-08-22T13:04:31Z This is a co-publication by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change research program (ACW). It assesses the climate policy progress of Canadian governments over the past two years with respect to long-term greenhouse gas emission reductions and concludes that positive progress in British Columbia and Quebec over the past few years is outweighed by backsliding in other provinces. The new governments in Alberta and Ontario—Canada’s two biggest carbon polluters—have reversed the climate policies of previous governments, which puts Canada’s already-unlikely national targets even further at risk. The report identifies two growing threats to climate policy progress in Canada: 1. A narrow public debate over carbon pricing is eroding political will for a more comprehensive climate policy approach. There are many other policies that are less controversial and can be just as effective at reducing emissions. 2. Canadian governments have been unwilling to introduce supply-side energy policies designed to restrict the production of fossil fuels, even though keeping much of our oil and gas in the ground is necessary to avoid the worst effects of global climate breakdown. Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change Report Newfoundland Prince Edward Island York University, Toronto: YorkSpace British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Newfoundland |
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This is a co-publication by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change research program (ACW). It assesses the climate policy progress of Canadian governments over the past two years with respect to long-term greenhouse gas emission reductions and concludes that positive progress in British Columbia and Quebec over the past few years is outweighed by backsliding in other provinces. The new governments in Alberta and Ontario—Canada’s two biggest carbon polluters—have reversed the climate policies of previous governments, which puts Canada’s already-unlikely national targets even further at risk. The report identifies two growing threats to climate policy progress in Canada: 1. A narrow public debate over carbon pricing is eroding political will for a more comprehensive climate policy approach. There are many other policies that are less controversial and can be just as effective at reducing emissions. 2. Canadian governments have been unwilling to introduce supply-side energy policies designed to restrict the production of fossil fuels, even though keeping much of our oil and gas in the ground is necessary to avoid the worst effects of global climate breakdown. Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change |
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Heating Up, Backing Down: Evaluating recent climate policy progress in Canada |
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