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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 ...
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Canada’s real environmental record (not what some would have you think)
Concentrations of two of the air pollutants of greatest concern have generally decreased across Canada since 2000. ...
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Ontario government’s cap-and-trade plan places politics over policy
Back in 2009, America was pondering a cap-and-trade scheme called “Waxman-Markey,” for the names of its Congressional sponsors. As I pointed out, emission-trading systems have a decent academic pedigree. When done right, they can emulate ...
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Obama’s joint announcement with China on GHG emissions an early Christmas present for environmental activists
Appeared in the Huffington Post Environmentalists received an early Christmas present on November 12, when President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping issued a “joint announcement” over the control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ...