The climate policy intelligentsia gets all knotted up on key aspects of climate policy design from targets to coverage, to allocation to auction and then recycling. But, I would argue that none of this really matters. Instead, what matters is what emitters believe. And so the most important question in climate policy is [...]
See here and here for an elaboration of this,
Ottawa will delay the release of climate regulations until there is a firm agreement on a global approach and clarity on how the United States intends to regulate emissions – which could take until late 2010,
and the Minister’s comments
“In the absence of an international understanding, and in [...]
A senior federal cabinet minister has added some long awaited clarity on where Canada is going with climate policy in advance of Copenhagen,
“I don’t think we’ve been ambiguous on this issue…”
(here)
This picture, and indeed the whole federal policy, is eerily paralleling the Bush administrations bold forays into climate policy … see post here
As [...]
Apparently some shrooms can sequester more carbon as temperatures rise…
Because the fungi in the dry northern areas are off their feed, they process less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, leaving more of it locked in the soil and less of it in the atmosphere, (here)
Well if only we could get some of these [...]
A neat little piece of climate policy work was just released, albeit quietly, during the federal election. Nic Rivers and Mark Jaccard have been taking analytical jabs at various climate policies for a very long time. Their central theme has been to compare, from an analytical perspective, what government’s say they will achieve [...]
Jack Mintz provides an nice overview of the key issues facing Canada with respect to carbon taxation (see here). I like the article because it is somewhat boring…it reveals some key issues, nestles carbon taxation within existing tax structures in Canada and generally points to why a carbon tax is likely the way to [...]
The federal Minister of Finance again needs to be commended for his statements that Canada needs some sort of climate policy consistency at the federal and provincial levels (here),
“It’s probably inevitable we have some different approaches now that don’t fit together,” Mr. Flaherty told reporters at a news conference, after a speech to the Vancouver [...]
BC’s speech from the throne had some interesting words on climate policy (see here), but the line that got me chuckling was this one,
“Every molecule of carbon dioxide released into our atmosphere by human activities matters”
While this is a great line to counter the argument that Canada’s share of global emissions are only 2% and [...]
There are two articles in the Globe today that perpetuate bad thoughts on carbon policy and carbon costs. The first article (see here) pegs costs way too high by assuming that every single molecule of carbon results in a uniform costs at the highest carbon price, say $50,
At $15 a tonne, if Keephills were [...]
When Jim Flaherty, the Federal Minister of Finance makes very public comments about climate policy, it is important. (see here). All too recently all things climate policy seemed to be the exclusive purview of Environment Canada. While Environment Canada is the logical lead on the file, the lack of visibility of others Ministers in [...]
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