Etiket: carbon
The carbon tax and the precarious liberal legacy
The dialectic had been relentless and unchanging for eight years. Carbon pricing is the best tool to curb greenhouse gas emissions and force citizens to finally adapt their polluting behavior,…
Carbon tax | Saskatchewan threatens Ottawa
(Ottawa) Saskatchewan threatened Monday to stop collecting the carbon tax on natural gas if Ottawa refused to suspend it on all forms of heating. The leader of the Conservative Party,…
Backtracking on carbon pricing | Poilievre: “Justin Trudeau is failing”
(Ottawa) The Trudeau government’s about-face on carbon pricing gives new ammunition to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Published at 11:33 a.m. The day after the announcement of a three-year pause in…
Ottawa suspends carbon pricing for heating oil
(Ottawa) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the government will double the amount of the carbon price reduction rebate for rural Canadians starting next April. Published yesterday at 7:35 p.m.…
Liberals suspend carbon pricing on heating oil
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the government will double the amount of the carbon price reduction rebate for rural Canadians starting next April. In a press release, the government…
“If we want to be carbon neutral, this means reducing unnecessary plastic,” insists Renew MEP Pascal Canfin
While the subject is on the agenda in the European Parliament, Pascal Canfin targets, for example, cardboard boxes for toothpaste in tubes or filmed cucumbers and denounces the resistance of…
“If we want to be carbon neutral, this means reducing unnecessary plastic,” insists Renew MEP Pascal Canfin
While the subject is on the agenda in the European Parliament, Pascal Canfin targets, for example, cardboard boxes for toothpaste in tubes or filmed cucumbers and denounces the resistance of…
Carbon capture and storage | Ottawa’s schedule will be difficult to meet with current technologies
(Calgary) Carbon capture and storage is key to making Canada’s electricity grid greener, but meeting the federal government’s proposed timeline will be extremely difficult based on the current state of…
Exterra begins burying carbon in Val-des-Sources
We have been talking about it for two decades with increasing skepticism. For the moment, reducing global CO emissions2 by burial has still not moved from theory to practice. The…
Asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon
The asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon as scientists hoped, NASA said Wednesday, revealing the first images of dust and blackened bits from the largest asteroid sample ever returned to…
An alliance to defend carbon neutrality in the agri-food sector
(Toronto) Leaders in the agricultural and food industries launch an alliance to achieve a carbon neutrality goal in the Canadian agri-food sector by 2050. Posted at 10:09 p.m. The Canadian…
A Quebecer wants to revive the carbon capture industry
Quebec businessman Frédéric Lalonde wants to accelerate the growth of the carbon capture industry to avoid climate catastrophe. Posted at 4:27 p.m. Updated at 5:24 p.m. Stéphane Rolland The Canadian…
the carbon tax at borders is born
A major reform of the European Green Deal comes into force on October 1: the famous carbon tax at borders, a French idea which has gained ground. This October 1…
Bloc members and Conservatives clash over carbon pricing
Knives were flying low in the Commons on Thursday, as the Bloc told the Conservatives their truths during a nearly six-hour debate on a motion on “taxes” on carbon. “Don’t…
Alberta rejects carbon neutrality by 2035
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she would use her province’s sovereignty law as a last resort to challenge any attempt by the federal government to impose a carbon-neutral electricity grid…
Rich countries must advance their carbon neutrality target, warns the IEA
Limiting global climate disruption to a viable threshold requires rich countries to bring forward their carbon neutrality target to 2045, concludes the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a report published…
Rich countries and China urged by IEA to accelerate race to carbon neutrality
Rich countries and developing economies alike will have to significantly advance their already ambitious carbon neutrality targets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, emphasizing that the rise of…
25 million barrels of oil every day in a “carbon neutral” world, admits Guilbeault
Even if humanity manages to achieve “carbon neutrality”, essential by 2050 to limit climate disruption, humanity will consume 25 million barrels of oil per day, affirms the federal Minister of…
an international team of scientists will study how global warming affects carbon sinks
This research program, called Calipso, will last five years and must be used for the work of the IPCC. It’s a deep dive into the effects of global warming. An…
Polytechnique Montréal offers a new tool to achieve carbon neutrality
This text is part of the special Research section: climate issues How to achieve net zero GHG emissions in Canada by 2050? Answering this question is not an easy task,…