To understand where we’re headed with climate change, we need to look at the latest political policies. What is the government doing to combat our changing climate and its impacts? What types of regulations are being put forth? What will the cost of moving away from fossil fuels be, both economically and socially?
By understanding the policies that are in place and the aims of our political parties, we can get a sense of where our political parties and the country as a whole is headed on this issue.
This episode of In Conversation with Amanda Lang covers this week’s Q1 GDP numbers, the Alberta election results and their implications for Canadian public policy, and State Farm Insurance’s withdrawal from home insurance in California and how it may foretell a growing policy issue in Canada.
Any credible climate policy should aim to lower emissions in the oil and gas sector on a net basis rather than eliminate them and the sector itself altogether. Otherwise, the costs to Canada’s economy would be significant and painful.
The last eight years were the hottest on record. That’s a big problem for Canada’s cities, where more than seventy percent of us live. We need to ensure our communities can deal with extreme heat, increased flooding, and an increased need to house people fleeing natural disasters.
Deploying next-generation 5G and 5G-enabled technologies will have positive impacts on our efforts to reduce emissions, due to both direct increases in the energy efficiency of the networks themselves and indirect impacts across all sectors that utilize digital technologies.
No matter what course Canada’s energy transition takes over the next three decades, the effects will be dramatic on all aspects of Canadians’ lives. The use of nuclear power has the potential to provide the most straightforward, sustainable, and economically beneficial approach.
The pre-ordained failure of government-mandated energy transitions has led some commentators to advocate de-growth and reduced consumption as an alternative. Yet, carbon fuels have improved human life in countless ways, from income per capita to life expectancy.
We need to stop being a country that waffles on big decisions and become a country that builds things again. Contracts for difference are a tool to help us build big things today, and create good jobs for Canadians across the country in the process.
The government, it seems, is rapidly moving away from market-based approaches to lower greenhouse gas emissions and instead opting for more targeted initiatives and stricter regulations, including a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.
Grape growers around the world are struggling with a similar problem: climate change and increasingly warm average temperatures. The Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute was founded to tackle the problem in the Canadian context with Canadian-focused research.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Eli Dourado, a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity, talking about innovation, technology, and what breakthroughs may pull us out of the “great stagnation.”
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