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A New and Correct map of the British Colonies in North America comprehending Eastern Canada with the Province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Government of Newfoundland with the Adjacent States of New England, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 1794.
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Map of British colonies in North America in 1794, including Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Much of the Northeastern United States can also be seen. Towns, cities and bodies of water are labelled. International, provincial, and state borders are outlined. The locations of Indigenous communities are marked throughout.
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Maps
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1794
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HMC0013
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yul:1153576
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A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy
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As the Government of Canada continues to protect and support Canadians through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is also important that the country look to the future. Canadians want to see a growing middle class where no one is left behind. They want a future where their kids and grandkids have access to clean air and water. That future is within reach. Collectively, Canada needs to accelerate climate action to get there. A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy is Canada's plan to build a better future. This plan builds on the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. It continues down the path that Canadians, their governments, and businesses have been setting. This plan is a cornerstone of the government's commitment in the 2020 Speech from the Throne to create over one million jobs, restoring employment to pre-pandemic levels. The plan includes 64 new measures and $15 billion in investments in addition to the Canada Infrastructure Bank's $6 billion for clean infrastructure announced this fall as part of its growth plan. A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy will make life more affordable for households. It will make Canadian communities more livable. And it will, at every turn, focus on workers and their careers in a fair and just transition to a stronger and cleaner economy. The plan will do this through five pillars
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healthy_environment_healthy_economy_plan.pdf
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yul:1156044
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Carbon Markets After Paris: Trading in Trouble
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Since the early 1990s, "putting a price on carbon" has been, perhaps, the primary policy proposal for fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Whether through carbon taxes or cap-and-trade emissions trading schemes (ETS), proponents of carbon pricing see it as a way to guide investment toward green solutions without the need for governments to intervene directly in the economy. ETSs, in particular, have been favored by businesses and neoliberal policy makers seeking to limit emissions without disrupting business-as-usual. For these reasons, great expectations are being placed on ETSs. The climate agreement, signed by the nations of the world in Paris in December, enshrines ETSs as a key mechanism for limiting emissions. But are ETSs effective instruments for reducing emissions? And how should trade unions approach debates around cap-and-trade policies? It has been a decade since the European Union established the world's largest ETS, so there is plenty of evidence available for a reevaluation of trade union positions on cap-and-trade. In the long aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis, the price on greenhouse gas emissions in the EU cap-and-trade emissions trading schemes has been too low to incentivize investors to move away from fossil fuels. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)—a supporter of the EU ETS—has called for policies that would raise the cost of emissions while also expressing concern about "carbon leakage," where companies move polluting activities (and associated jobs) to jurisdictions without price constraints on pollution. Such a position threads the needle of trade union debates around the EU ETS without resolving the underlying tensions—nor, it should be noted, shifting EU policy in any appreciable way. With the Paris Agreement giving an even more prominent role to cap-and-trade, unions around the world are likely to face similar debates. In this TUED Working Paper, Sean Sweeney, the director of the International Program for Labor, Climate and the Environment at CUNY's Murphy Institute, argues that it is time for unions to reevaluate their stance on cap-and-trade policy. Market-based solutions may be appealing to business interests and their political allies, but it's going to take direct governmental action to guide a transition to a just, democratic, and sustainable energy system. The now battered neoliberal consensus finds public and democratic ownership and control of a key economic sector to be anathema, but it is precisely what is needed if we are serious about combating climate change.
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TUED-Working-Paper-6.pdf
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yul:1156041
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Economic Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon Emissions
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This State of the Debate report marks the conclusion of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)’s Ecological Fiscal Reform (EFR) and Energy Program. It describes the Program’s research findings and details the final recommendations stemming from the stakeholder consultations. The EFR and Energy Program represents the second phase of the NRTEE’s EFR Program. Whereas Phase 1 explored the general potential of economic instruments to advance sustainable development—looking at EFR measures in Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as the use of EFR in specific sectors of the economy—Phase 2 has focused on the use of economic instruments in achieving long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon emissions. Case studies of industrial energy efficiency, renewable energy, and hydrogen technologies.
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yul:827225
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Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada - Technical Backgrounder
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This report complements the Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada report by providing additional details on the analysis underpinning the conclusions in the Advisory Note. By integrating the research commissioned or developed by the NRTEE, including economic modelling, it illustrates the main Advisory Note’s grounding in credible and original analysis. The Technical Backgrounder also provides a useful policy design framework and reference tool for policy makers by identifying important design and implementation issues and the trade-offs between the main design options .
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yul:827220
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Ontario's Climate Change: Discussion Paper 2015
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The document is intended to lay the groundwork for a forthcoming comprehensive policy and to facilitate consultation with business, municipalities, industry, Indigenous groups and the public. The paper suggests implementing new regulations and market instruments, including carbon pricing, which will realign economic incentives and disincentives with climate change mitigation goals. The paper emphasizes the importance of climate-smart infrastructure and transportation development to help merge economic growth, resilience, energy efficiency, and emissions reduction strategies. It concludes with a call for the opinions of stakeholders, including how to build upon existing successful policies, which industries to target, how to design climate-friendly built communities, and which carbon pricing mechanism might suit Ontario best. Also available in French.
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yul:786662
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Acting on Climate Change: Solutions from Canadian Scholars
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“A scholarly consensus on science-based, viable solutions for greenhouse gas reduction”. Sixty academics from across Canada combined to urge policymakers to adopt a long-term target of at least an 80 % reduction in emissions by mid-century. “In the short-term, we believe that Canada, in keeping with its historical position of aligning with US targets, could adopt a 2025 target of a 26-28% reduction in GHG emissions relative to our 2005 levels.” Policy recommendations include, most immediately: Either a national carbon tax or a national economy-wide cap and trade program; elimination of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry ; and integration of sustainability and climate change into landscape planning at the regional and city levels so that maintenance and new infrastructure investments contribute to decarbonizing. The paper also advocates establishment of East-West smart grid connections to allow hydro-producing provinces to sell electricity to their neighbours; energy efficiency programs, and a “transportation revolution”. Also available in French, as Agir sur les changements climatiques, http://www.sustainablecanadadialogues.ca/files/PDF_DOCS/FR_15mars_20H_lowres.pdf
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yul:576668
