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1. On Earth Day, we should celebrate Canada’s environmental track record

   Per-capita solid waste disposal declined by 10 per cent between 2002 and 2018. ...

2. Despite court ruling, Ottawa’s carbon tax remains fundamentally flawed

   The carbon tax will increase by $15 per tonne until it reaches $170 per tonne. ...

3. Ottawa introduces new rules for energy sector at worst possible time

   Last month, the Trudeau government released rules, part of the new federal regulatory process under Bill C-69, requiring certain projects including new mines, power plants, pipelines, airports, oil and gas projects, and railways to ...

4. Fast-growing developing countries will spur demand for oil for decades

   When people tell you the future is free of fossil fuels, you should direct them to this report by BP on future oil demand. It features a great chart showing the projected oil demand to 2040 by a dozen different estimates (by different ...

5. Report swings and misses at carbon price 'myths'

   In a previous blog post, I explored whether the “10 Myths about carbon pricing in Canada” recently published by the Ecofiscal Commission were really all that mythical. The previous post looked at myths one to five. This post will look at ...

6. Canada’s supply management system increases air pollution

   In the last few years, a growing number of scholars and activists have tied our meat consumption with climate change. The reason is simple—animals emit large quantities of greenhouse gases as a result of   enteric fermentation (i.e. ...

7. Federal government’s carbon-pricing system violates basic tenets of efficient carbon pricing

   In a highly anticipated announcement, the federal government today revealed details of its carbon-pricing system, which will impose a federal carbon tax on provinces that have chosen to forego a provincial policy. The system violates ...

8. Canada’s climate policy—we’ll (not) always have Paris

   The consequences of adopting extreme targets for reducing Canadian greenhouse gas emissions became somewhat clearer recently, as a secret memo from Environment Canada to Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna (pictured ...

9. Another celebrity tour of the oilsands, another woefully incomplete picture

   We’re barely into 2017, and we’ve had our first celebrity tour of the oilsands, with much rhetoric and lamentations (not to mention lots of spent jet, helicopter and motorcade fuel). Jane Fonda is visiting Canada for the now obligatory ...

10. Shifting climate policy focus—from mitigation to adaptation

    Over the roughly 20 years I’ve studied climate policy, it’s always seemed to me that the concept of “adaptation” was never given the primacy it deserves in dealing with future climate risks. Back in 1998, When I was a newly minted policy ...