Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is our biggest weapon in the fight against climate change. And the Canadian government has introduced a myriad of climate policies with this goal in mind.
From subsidizing low-carbon technologies to imposing carbon taxes on high emitters, various levels of the government are finding multi-pronged approaches to reduce their region’s carbon emissions.
But as the federal, provincial and territorial government efforts are often taken independently, some emissions sources are covered by multiple policies while others remain unregulated.
Today, in The Conversation Canada, William Scott from Stanford University and Ekaterina Rhodes from The University of Victoria highlight how policy mixes between these different jurisdictions affect overall emission reductions.
They believe that in order to achieve our emissions goals, federal, provincial and territorial policies need to synchronize their efforts and maximize impact.
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Despite Canada’s numerous greenhouse gas reduction policies, these stubbornly high emissions are only now showing signs of falling.
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William Scott, Stanford University; Ekaterina Rhodes, University of Victoria
While the introduction of more climate policies across jurisdictions is good, synchronized policy decisions are better.
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Sunil Johal, University of Toronto
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Naomie Gendron, McGill University; Bassam Khoury, McGill University; Marie-Claude Geoffroy, McGill University; Massimiliano Orri, McGill University
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Sylvie St-Onge, HEC Montréal
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Gabriele Neher, University of Nottingham
A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci’s father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo’s mother.
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Politics
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Zanele Nyoni- Wood, Lancaster University
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Chris Nowotarski, Texas A&M University
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