A new report from Climate Action Network Canada reaches some troubling conclusions about the federal government's approach to climate science research in Canada. On Monday, Canwest reporter Mike de Souza and La Presse journalist François Cardinal reported that leaked Environment Canada documents obtained in CAN's research show the federal department's new media relations policy, adoped in 2007, reduced the news media's coverage of Environment Canada climate scientists by 80%, leaving some of Canada's top climate experts "extremely frustrated" and feeling "muzzled". But that's just part of the story. read more...
Fact Sheet: Transforming Canada's Energy Economy
Canada needs a massive investment in clean energy technology to cut our GHG pollution. The solutions are at hand: more efficient vehicles and buildings, wind and solar power, and even carbon capture and storage have already been demonstrated on an industrial scale.
But Canada has not yet succeeded in dramatically accelerating investment in such technologies. Download our "Transforming Canada's Energy Economy" fact sheet to find out more about the policies it would take to move technologies like these out of the fringes and into the mainstream.
Download: English Fact Sheet | Version française
Economic Modelling Study for Canadian GHG Targets
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity is the first Canadian study of its kind to show how reducing GHG emissions would affect employment and gross domestic product at the regional level. It also provides a comprehensive outline of policies that would enable Canada to meet both the federal government's current emissions target for 2020, and a more ambitious target derived from scientific analysis of the emission reductions needed to limit average global warming to 2°C.
With strong policies, Canada can meet a 2°C target in 2020 and have a strong, growing economy, a quality of life higher than Canadians enjoy today, and continued steady job creation across the country.
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Our Fair Share: Canada's Role in Supporting Global Climate Solutions
With countries racing to reach a new global climate deal by December, financial support for climate action in developing countries has emerged as an essential building block for a successful outcome. Based on current estimates of the costs of emission reductions and adaptation, Canada's contribution would be about C$2B to C$6B per year.
Canada is the world’s 8th largest emitter of GHG pollution and has the world’s 13th largest economy. This means we have both the responsibility and the capacity to support climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. Formulas for sharing the effort show that Canada’s “fair share” is about 3-4 per cent of the global total.
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