OTTAWA—Canada’s efforts to combat climate change are coming up short because the country lacks a clear industrial policy, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Environment and sustainability
Fossil fuels are a central problem in our economy, and Canadian climate policy is only slowly catching up. Carbon pricing and efficiency standards won’t get us to net zero by 2050, and corporate tax incentives and consumer subsidies won’t move industry there soon enough either. So, what alternate solutions can we turn to?
In Bet Big: A citizen’s guide to green industrial policy in Canada, CCPA Senior Researcher Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and co-author Noah Kathen focus on four actions the federal government should take today to create a green industrial sector in Canada.
Issue highlights:
This spring, Global Affairs Canada sought advice on the development of a reciprocal procurement policy that would “reduce access to Canadian federal procurement opportunities for foreign suppliers, goods, and services from countries that do not provide a comparable level of access to Canadian suppliers.” The department frames the policy as a means of ensuring fairness and mutual benefit in Canada’s international trade relationships.
VANCOUVER — Several engineers and geoscientists say some of the worst flooding and landslides in BC last November were in valleys with land disturbances related to aging logging roads, logging cut-blocks and wildfires, and they say the BC government must take responsibility for fixing such problems.
Investor-state dispute settlements are a lesser known but significantly harmful mechanism that allows large corporations to target environmental policy and resource management decisions in developing nations.
OTTAWA—Canadian mining companies continue to target environmental policy and resource management decisions in developing nations through increasingly costly investor-state lawsuits that threaten human rights, sustainable development and action on climate change, according to new analysis released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 7, 2022
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