CACOR’s Pathways study, informed by examining a very wide range of technological options and the known plans of governments, shows without doubt that Canada will hit neither 30% nor 40% targets. Current leaders are spitting in the wind.
Canada needs at least one leader who understands that Canada’s emissions are the result of a century and a half of technologies that produce and burn fossil fuels. The policy goal must be supported by measures to deliver it. The performance of those measures must be monitored every year so that adjustments can be made. For example, if electric vehicles were part of the recipe, the number sold would be reported every year and the program adjusted accordingly.
Canada has been committed to reducing emissions since 1992, when it signed the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. Science matters. It is high time for Canada to set targets that it could actually hit!