Heating Up, Backing Down: Evaluating recent climate policy progress in Canada

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dc.contributor.authorMertins-Kirkwood, Hadrian
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-07T18:08:04Z
dc.date.available2022-03-07T18:08:04Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAdapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39322
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAdapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW)
dc.publisherCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
dc.relation.ispartofseries203
dc.rights.articlehttps://www.adaptingcanadianwork.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/203_Mertins-Kirkwood-Hadrian_Heating-Up-Backing-Down.pdf
dc.rights.journalhttps://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/heating-backing-down
dc.rights.licenseContent 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.
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectClimate change policy
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subjectBritish Columbia
dc.subjectAlberta
dc.subjectSaskatchewan
dc.subjectManitoba
dc.subjectOntario
dc.subjectQuebec
dc.subjectNew Brunswick
dc.subjectNova Scotia
dc.subjectPrince Edward Island
dc.subjectNewfoundland and Labrador
dc.subjectCanadian Territories
dc.subjectCarbon pricing
dc.subjectFossil fuels
dc.subjectProvincial policy
dc.subjectEmissions reductions
dc.titleHeating Up, Backing Down: Evaluating recent climate policy progress in Canadaen
dc.typeReport

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