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How Scientists & Engineers Can Share Information to Help Build Public Support on Canada’s Path to Net Zero Emissions
Canada has set ambitious national targets in the race to mitigate climate change: a non-emitting electricity grid by 2035 and a net zero economy by 20…
Limits to evidence-based policymaking: how politics and worldviews shape our understanding of what to do about energy and climate change
Climate change is a daunting policy challenge, where decision-makers must respond to a high-uncertainty and high-risk problem in an environment featur…
Building Consensus on Energy and Climate in Canada: Insights from the Literature
In recent public opinion survey work, Positive Energy has identified that Canadians are polarized along partisan lines on a number of key energy and c…
On Canada’s precarious climate politics
In the last federal election, every major party embraced the language of net-zero by 2050. Given how effectively energy and climate have worked as pol…
On energy and climate, politics is a problem
Canada has had several heated debates over energy and climate policies in recent years. The optimism and action that followed the 2015 Paris Conferenc…
Pursuing Canada’s COP commitments requires changing how energy decisions are made
In the aftermath of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), countries must now focus on turning their ambitious comm…
Innovation and Meaningful Regulatory Engagement: A Regulator’s Reaction to Positive Energy and CAMPUT’s Collaborative Project
I would like to offer a regulator’s perspective on two principal topics found in What Works? Identifying and scaling up successful innovations in Cana…
The urgency to act on climate is surging in Canada
It’s election season and the parties are jockeying to define the issues and terms of the debate.
Ensuring Paris isn’t the next Copenhagen, Kyoto, or Rio
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores yet again the urgency to act, noting that climate change is widespread,…
Supporting Indigenous businesses is an essential pathway to healing Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples
With the recent confirmation of children’s remains at former residential schools and the continued news about missing and murdered Indigenous women an…
Canada’s hydrogen strategy: Learning from past energy transitions
On January 19, 2021, the ISSP hosted a panel entitled Hydrogen and Canada’s Energy Future: Opportunities, Challenges, Next Steps. This blog is an adap…
Canada’s Just Transition Task Force can offer lessons for a green recovery
After her swearing in, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stated “all Canadians understand that the restart of our economy needs to be green.” While F…
Australian Federalism and Energy Policy Post COVID-19: Lessons for Canada?
From the outside, it appears that COVID-19 has reshaped the contours of Australian energy and climate policy. Superficially, there is much that appear…
Energy and Canada’s polarized regions
One of the most important issues in the 2019 election was Canada’s energy future. There was intense debate on issues such as carbon taxes, pipeline si…
Art Meets Energy
It’s been over a year since Dr. Monica Gattinger invited me to join the Positive Energy Team, within the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, at…
