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Title: Extracted Carbon: Re-examining Canada’s Contribution to Climate Change through Fossil Fuel Export
Description: This study re-examines Canada’s contribution to global climate change in light of the Paris Agreement by looking at extracted carbon - the total amount of fossil fuels removed from Canadian soil that ends up in the atmosphere -whether used for domestic purposes, or exported and combusted elsewhere. It concludes that “Plans to further grow Canada’s exports of fossil fuels are thus contradictory to the spirit and intentions of the Paris Agreement. Growing our exports could only happen if some other producing countries agreed to keep their fossil fuel reserves in the ground. The problem with new fossil fuel infrastructure projects, like Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plants and bitumen pipelines, is that they lock us in to a high-emissions trajectory for several decades to come, giving up on the 1.5 to 2°C limits of Paris.” It follows that “Canadian climate policy must consider supply-side measures such as rejecting new fossil fuel infrastructure and new leases for exploration and drilling, increasing royalties, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.” This paper updates and expands a 2011 Climate Justice Project publication, Peddling GHGs: What is the Carbon Footprint of Canada’s Fossil Fuel Exports?, co-authored with Amanda Card.
Identifier (PID): yul:1122028

Title: Federal Efforts to Reduce the Cost of Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide
Description: Describes the current government efforts at demonstration projects and research into carbon capture and storage, including costs of generating coal-fired electricity with CCS technology. The report considers alternate policy scenarios for investment in CCS technology, including increased funding by the Department of Energy, or increased reliance on private sector funding.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120642

Title: White paper: Empirical evidence regarding the effects of the Clean Air Act on jobs and economic growth
Description: An analysis of the economic and health benefits likely to accrue from the Clean Air Act in the U.S. Based on a review of the economic literature, it projects job growth. Submitted to Representatives Henry Waxman and Bobby Rush, ranking members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120601

Title: Canada's Second Biennial Report on Climate Change
Description: 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).
Identifier (PID): yul:826057

Title: Achieving Balance - Ontario's Long-Term Energy Plan
Description: Achieving Balance was released on December 2, 2013. It is an updated long-term energy plan which emphasizes energy conservation, maintains the policy of ending coal-generated electricity, and holds the line on investment in new nuclear power facilities. The Thunder Bay nuclear plant will be converted to generate energy from advanced biomass. The plan acknowledges Ontario’s reduced energy demands and sets a target of about half of Ontario’s installed generating capacity to come from renewable sources by 2025. Several backgrounders were also released supporting the strategic directions, including backgrounders re Northern Ontario, First Nations, and conservation. Also available in French.
Identifier (PID): yul:772948

Title: ACW Baseline Report: Energy
Description: Presented at the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) International Workshop in Toronto, Canada, November 2015. A review of all energy-related emissions is provided in this report, along with projections of future energy use. It is shown that oil and gas, transport, and buildings are the sectors most responsible for our increased emission profile. Growth in industrial and transport energy use will demand significantly more fossil fuel unless policy interventions push us towards ‘greener’ scenarios; using projections from the Trottier Energy Futures Project (TEFP 2016), two such scenarios are explored, one focused on sustainable urban development, and the other on a future where new electricity generation from nuclear sources is constrained. In both of these scenarios, the amount of electricity used in every sector increases dramatically. This suggests that a critical issue of the future will be designing new electricity generation in order to benefit both society and the workers who are engaged in the projects
Identifier (PID): yul:721793

Title: ACW Baseline Report: Domestic Policy
Description: Presented at the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) International Workshop in Toronto, Canada, November 2015. The paper presents an overview of Canadian policies and financing instruments, at the federal and provincial level, implemented to date to discourage greenhouse gas emissions and to encourage the adoption of green energy.
Identifier (PID): yul:721792