The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment meeting in Saint John, N.B. on 1994 June 1 made the following statement. “The Council of Ministers reaffirmed its commitment to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000 and to develop sustainable options to achieve further progress in the reduction of emissions by the year […]
Mark Carney, named UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, says the smart money is on transition from fossil fuels
“Every major company needs to have a strategy for net-zero,” says Mark Carney, the next UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. In conversation with The Sunday Edition’s host Michael Enright, Carney stressed that citizens in countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom have agreed, through their elected parliaments, to meet the target of the 2016 Paris […]
Could Canada find a pathway from Paris to 2030? If not then, when?
Canada’s Greenhouse Gases John Hollins[1], 2020 February 14 Findings and Insights from the Pathways Study of the Canadian Club of Rome Summary Canada’s public policy to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases has not delivered. Canada failed by a wide margin to meet the commitment that it made in Kyoto in 1997. It has abandoned […]
Global warming solutions, explained
Humans have the solutions to address climate change. The question is: Do we have the will? By Christina Nunez PUBLISHED January 24, 2019 The evidence that humans are causing climate change, with drastic consequences for life on the planet, is overwhelming, but the question of what to do about it remains controversial. Economics, sociology, and […]
BILL C-69: Is the balance right?
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR, reviews Bill C-69. Some thoughts An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. Fundamental issue Thoreau captured the essence of the matter in 15 words some 150 years ago: […]