Ottawa expects firms to commit to things they can’t possibly predict.
paris climate conference
June 2, 2017
9:28AM
As the United States cuts climate regulations, Canada pours them on.
May 29, 2017
4:31PM
The United States likely won’t mirror Canada’s climate policies.
April 7, 2017
9:05AM
Governments know people won’t accept the level of carbon taxation necessary to achieve current GHG targets, so they hide most of the cost in regulation.
December 11, 2015
3:00AM
With the announcement that the Pope may “intervene” in the Paris climate negotiations, the last act of the Great Paris Climate Conference is set.
As I wrote in 2010, these giant climate conferences follow an entirely predictable story arc that goes like this:
1) The media will downplay expectations, and diplomats and environmentalists will bemoan how far behind the process is in producing an agreement.
November 30, 2015
3:22PM
While the planned reduction in emissions may sound impressive, the effect on temperatures will likely be rather small and the costs in dollars quite high.