A tale of evidence-based policy making (and the Canadian Government’s desperate attempts to kill it)
Hannah McKinnon, Campaign Director of Climate Action Network Canada, writes while meeting with European-decision makers
March 21, 2012 – Over the past three days I have had about 10 meetings …
The new report, Dirty Oil Diplomacy – The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands, outlines the changing domestic and international policies of the Canadian government as …
Executive Summary – Dirty Oil Diplomacy: The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands
This is the Executive Summary of the new report, Dirty Oil Diplomacy – The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands, which outlines the changing domestic and …
À quoi vous fait penser le Canada? À de vastes espaces sauvages protégés? À la diversité culturelle et à la tolérance? À la réputation du Canada comme agent international pour …
This is the French Version of the Executive Summary of the new report, Dirty Oil Diplomacy – The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands, which outlines …
Money raised by curbing ships’ carbon emissions would be used to help poor countries tackle climate change, according to a draft text being negotiated at the UN climate talks in
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OTTAWA — A Greek politician visiting Canada to talk about the EU’s climate policies will pay his own travel costs, says a spokeswoman for Climate Action Network Canada, which co-ordinated …
Greenpeace released a report singling out the Canadian government’s collusion with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and tar sands companies like Shell and their intentions of derailing clean energy …
OTTAWA – “It is valid to want to protect jobs in Canada and choose the way you want to grow, but nobody should try to stop another sovereign state from …
Ottawa — Le gouvernement conservateur a accusé une fois de plus le Nouveau Parti démocratique de trahison dans le dossier des sables bitumineux. Cette fois, il reproche à l’opposition officielle …
Since 2010, Climate Action Network Canada has been conducting research into the myriad ways that the Canadian government has been actively promoting tar sands oil in other countries. Never-before released …
Oxfam
2009
Climate change is damaging people’s lives today. Even if world leaders agree the strictest possible curbs on greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions, the prospects are very bleak for hundreds …
Our Fair Share: Canada’s Role in Supporting Global Climate Solutions
Pembina Institute
2009
Argues that Canada and other wealthy countries have not provided sufficient funding for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, and estimates that Canada’s “fair share” of …
Sierra Club Canada
November, 2005
From November 28-December 9, 2005, Canada will host the 11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the …
Depuis 2010, Réseau action climat Canada a mené des recherches dans la myriade de façons que le gouvernement canadien a fait activement la promotion pétrole des sables bitumineux dans d’autres pays. Documents encore jamais publiés obtenus par CAN Canada révèlent que le gouvernement du …
Canada’s contribution to climate change in global perspectives
Provides the final statement of reasons for the California Air Resources Board’s decision to implement a low-carbon fuel standard, made after a public hearing on an earlier version of the …
Oxfam International
April, 2009
Each year, on average, almost 250 million people are affected by ‘natural’ disasters. In a typical year between 1998 and 2007, 98 per cent of them …
Oxfam
2009
Oxfam report says rich countries have a ‘double duty’ to act on climate change: rich countries must cut emissions at home and to help fund emissions reductions in …
Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Québec and the Pembina Institute
2009
People living in poverty in developing countries are least responsible for the climate crisis. Yet they are suffering its most severe …
Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3N)
2009
The best estimates of the costs of a vigorous, immediate effort to rebuild the world economy around carbon-free technologies are still …
Oxfam
2009
In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the world’s poorest people. Human-rights principles must be put …
Governor Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order calling for a 10% reduction from 2007 levels in the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels by 2020.…
Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council
January, 2007
The good news first. Renewable energy, combined with the smart use of energy, can deliver half of the world’s energy needs …