Both advanced and emerging markets are moving inexorably towards a low-carbon future. Yet Canada has no coherent strategy to reduce carbon consumption.
It is time for a change.
Canada urgently needs a meaningful national carbon strategy that will reduce our emissions and provide the certainty that businesses and individuals require for effective future planning.
Ottawa – Canada needs a comprehensive strategy for reducing carbon emissions but there is no clear consensus on how to…
Ten years ago, a very senior federal deputy minister told me that implementing Canada’s Kyoto Protocol target to reduce our…
As the world struggles to restrict carbon emissions into the atmosphere, Canada stands out. Although many countries emit larger absolute…
Canada is one of the highest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in the world. We are likely to increase, significantly,…
Speakers: Alex Wood, Ian Mallory, Joe Aldy, Lorraine Mitchelmore, Stewart Elgie
Speakers: Derek Burney, Hon. John Manley, Jayson Myers, Pierre Guimond
Speakers: Avrim Lazar, The Hon. Anne McLellan
Andrew Coyne writes that every party agrees there’s a problem on climate change, but no party is doing anything about…
Bud Sambasivam looks beyond provincial efforts to reduce carbon.
Most technologies still rely on subsidy: but subsidies are being withdrawn. This new report analyses what needs to happen to…
Not only is this economically highly inefficient, it is also environmentally problematic argues Barrie McKenna, citing a new study.
By enforcing lower caps on CO2 emissions, the EPA is driving the electricity sector towards natural gas.
The OECD predicts temperatures will rise by 3-6C by 2050 if we continue on our current path. Effective action would…
Unlikely allies come together to call for an economy wide price on carbon.
Reconciling the interests of the various provinces will not be easy, but it is important.
John Podesta, a Canada 2020 speaker, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former White House Chief of Staff…
The Globe and Mail’s Editorial Board picks up on the Canadian Council of Chief Executives’ (CCCE) paper calling for a national energy strategy. Attendees at…
Craig Alexander, senior vice-president and chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, one of the panellists at Canada 2020′s recent PowerTalk Symposium, penned…
McCarthy reports that “The Harper government has endorsed the need for a national energy strategy in the face of growing…
The Honourable Jim Prentice, PC, QC, Vice Chairman, CIBC, delivered an address to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on May 11,…
Calgary Herald columnist Deborah Yedlin on why Canada needs to live up to energy superpower label.
Further to David Goldwyn keynote at the Canada 2020 Speakers Series event of April 6, Thomas Donohue (president and CEO of the US…
The Globe and Mail’s Eric Reguly argues that “Nuclear’s loss not a worry; the new world power is gas“.
Canada 2020 Co-Founders Tim Barber and Eugene Lang have an op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen: “Energy superpower — policy midget“.…
Great article by Todd Hirsch in today’s Globe, in search for “truth in the oil sands.”
New Geography examines how telecommuting and telework can be looked at through a transportation policy and mass transit lens.
Canada scores last and is trending worse on the World Wildlife Foundation’s Climate Report Card. “Nowhere else on Earth do…
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