Erin O’Toole and the Conservative Party of Canada didn’t lose votes as a result of including carbon pricing in the party’s 2021 election climate plan. That’s according to the results of a national exit poll released today by Leger and Clean Prosperity.
“The Green Party of Canada’s newly-released climate platform contains some important ideas that can help advance the climate policy conversation, though there are other planks that are either unfeasible or potentially harmful to the economy,” Clean Prosperity Executive Director Michael Bernstein said today.
"The new climate policies proposed today by the Liberal Party of Canada offer a strong boost to the party’s earlier commitments. The plan matches the ambition of Canada’s 2030 target, a 40-45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 levels,” said Clean Prosperity Executive Director Michael Bernstein.
To achieve its climate goals, Canada needs to decarbonize heavy industry while maintaining competitiveness; the best way to do this is by putting a charge on the carbon content of imports in a scheme similar to the one recently introduced by the European Union.
New poll data shows a surge in the number of Canadians who want urgent climate action.
"The climate platform released today by the federal New Democratic Party proposes a range of ambitious climate policies that is on par with the scale of the challenge in front of us," said Clean Prosperity Executive Director Michael Bernstein.
How does carbon pricing actually work to lower emissions? With our explainer video, you’ll be an expert on this keystone piece of Canadian climate policy in less than three minutes.
A tool you’ve probably never heard of may be the key to enabling Canada's climate ambition. It's called border carbon adjustment, and it could change the way we pursue decarbonization.
With the European Commission set to announce a new EU border carbon adjustment (BCA) regime tomorrow, now is the time for Canada to figure out how to reconcile its climate ambition with the need to protect the competitiveness of domestic industry and prevent carbon leakage. That’s one of the urgent messages in a new report,
If the effects of climate change on our planet don't concern you, the impacts on our economy should.
“The new climate target announced at today’s Earth Day Summit by Prime Minister Trudeau is a positive step forward in the battle against climate change,” said Clean Prosperity Executive Director Michael Bernstein.
“Today’s federal budget is good news for climate action,” Clean Prosperity Executive Director Michael Bernstein said today.
