Class & Climate: Debunking Degrowth with Matt Huber
Author and professor Matt Huber argues that solving the climate crisis doesn’t require economic “degrowth”.
GHG Emissions
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Class & Climate: Workers’ Safety in the Climate Crisis
How are unions protecting workers’ health and safety as temperatures rise, fires and floods increase, and environmental regulations are gutted?
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Class & Climate: The Politics of Electrification with Stephen Thomas
The David Suzuki Foundation’s Stephen Thomas discusses the political challenges and possibilities for building a truly green Canadian electricity grid.
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Class & Climate: Moving Canada for Climate Action with Blandine Sebileau
Equiterre’s Sustainable Mobility Analyst shows how clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.
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Why Canadians are Stuck Waiting for the Bus with Nate Wallace
Investment in public transit has weakened, ridership has stalled as commuters are forced to drive, and the economy loses billions in lost productivity.
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5 reasons why higher carbon prices require stronger green industrial policy
A green industrial policy is so urgent because without it, the carbon price is unlikely to receive enough political support to ever reach its 2030 level or to induce the transformative changes required for a net-zero emissions economy. Here are five reasons why.
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Moving from good optics to sustained action on climate change
What countries that have got their emissions under control have is a well-institutionalized process for integrating the monitoring of emissions trends and the policy making process, and to develop real-time policy adjustment in the face of evolving emissions trends.
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Serious climate action requires emission reduction targets
Trudeau’s announcement displays a very poor understanding of the evidence about how governments can help their societies reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The common sense proposition of phasing out Alberta’s coal plants
In moving away from coal, Alberta would be in the mainstream of a trend that’s now picking up speed around the world.
