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 effects: floods, drought, and storms, plus falling agricultural yields and […]
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 in the range of one to three percent of world […]
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 at the heart of international climate-change policy making now, in […]
This briefing document gives a background on the EU Fuel Quality Directive, and explains how it could affect Canadian tar sands oil. “Background Briefing: The Revised Fuel Quality Directive.” Transport and Environment, December 2008.
This is the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ response to California’s proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
This is a pair of emails related to a Government of Canada interdepartmental session on oil sands. The emails reference an oil sands communications plan for NRCan (see document “Draft NRCan Oil Sands Communications Plan”), and a “DFAIT led ‘Advocacy […]
This email from December 2008 reveals that fact that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has been leading an “Advocacy Strategy” on oil sands for the United States. It is noteworthy that the document chosen to provide […]
“CBC News has obtained a government document that says reducing greenhouse gases from Western Canada’s oilsands will be much more difficult than some politicians and the industry suggest.” Read more…..
This is another briefing note prepared for the Minister of Natural Resources. Much of the content is redacted. Among the sections completely or largely blacked out are “Policy and Technical Issues”, “Communications Considerations”, and “Advice to Minister”. The date of […]
This briefing note, prepared for the Minister of Natural Resources, helps explain why letters from NRCan often accompany letters from Canadian politicians lobbying against good climate policy, like California’s LCFS. The note discusses the image of Canada’s “dirty” tar sands […]
