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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
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Acting on Climate Change: Extending the Dialogue Among Canadians
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Compiles submissions from First Nations, business, NGOs, labour, youth and private citizens , organized into topics which include Employment and Labour, Social Justice, Indigenous Perspectives, Reinventing Cities, Renewable Energy Challenges, Youth, and more. Submissions were made in response to the first SCD consensus paper from March 2015: "Acting on Climate Change: Solutions from Canadian Scholars". Highlight papers from the responses: “The role of workers in the transition to a low-carbon economy ; “Protect the Environment by Doing More Work, Not Less”; and “Envisioning a Good Green Life in British Columbia: Lessons From the Climate Justice Project”.
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yul:772772
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Parallel Paths: Canada-U.S. climate policy choices
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Third report of the Climate Prosperity series . According to the introduction, "With this report, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) has undertaken the most comprehensive analysis yet published on the economic risks and opportunities for Canada of climate policy in the context of the Canada-United States relationship." The report proposes a "Transitional Policy Option" which would implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade system in Canada ahead of the U.S., but would limit the Canadian carbon price so that it would never become too out of step with the U.S.
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yul:577030
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Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change
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This statement was drafted by the federal government in agreement with provincial and territorial governments - with the exception of Saskatchewan, which did not agree to the plan. It is meant to further the climate policy goals established in the Vancouver Declaration by the first ministers. The Pan-Canadian Framework has four main pillars: pricing carbon pollution; complementary measures to further reduce emissions across the economy; measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change and build resilience; and actions to accelerate innovation, support clean technology, and create jobs.
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yul:1120605
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Canada's Second Biennial Report on Climate Change
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This report presents projections of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada to the years 2020 and 2030, by sector. It also provides information on actions undertaken to address climate change,both federal and provincial, with live links to documents cited in the summary. Also includes information about climate-related support provided to developing countries. This report is submitted every 2 years to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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yul:826057
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Work in a changing climate: The Green Initiative: Report of the Director-General
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The main body of the Director-General’s Report to the 106th International Labour Conference, June 2017, describes and updates the accomplishments of the ILO Green Centenary Initiative, which was launched in 2013, “to promote the considerable potential for creation of decent work associated with the transition to a low carbon sustainable development path and to minimize and manage the inevitable dislocation that will accompany it.” The report emphasizes the need for research and policy analysis,and includes the following important themes: the need for tripartite responses to climate change; the importance of a global carbon price; and skills development and social protection for the successful green transformation of work processes. The Working Group of the ILO responded to the Director-General's report on June 9.
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yul:1122077
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A Canadian Perspective on the Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System - Final Report
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The Prime Minister of Canada has requested that the members of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) provide, as part of a larger body of advice to the federal government in its preparations for COP-11, a Canadian perspective on "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The present paper has been prepared to provide NRTEE members with information to address this request. The NRTEE’s advice on this question is contained in a memo to the Prime Minister that was released on November 22, 2005. The paper is also meant as a resource to be consulted and drawn upon in setting the stage for a larger piece of work referred to the NRTEE by the Prime Minister – providing preliminary advice on a long-term energy and climate change strategy for Canada. While the current paper discusses climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, future NRTEE work will focus on long-term national mitigation options conducive to Canada’s successful competition in a low-carbon future. The Prime Minister has requested that the NRTEE examine the issues of energy and climate change through the lens of maintaining Canada’s national interest.
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RPT_2006_GAMC_Canadian-Perspective-on-the-Dangerous-Anthroprogenic-Interference-with-the-Climate-System-Final.pdf
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yul:413885
