This dire forecast may be overly pessimistic. Unfortunately, it's consistent with the continuing history of market economics blocking most attempts at increasing social-economic planning.
Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.
In 2007, then-BC premier Gordon Campbell passed the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act” committing BC to a 33 per cent reduction in emissions from 2007 levels by 2020.
Despite premier Campbell’s good intentions, emissions in 2020 were down just 1.6 per cent.
Five people were arrested at a camp on traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northwestern B.C. on Wednesday.
Sleydo', a spokesperson for the Gidimt'en checkpoint, said Mounties in multiple police vehicles arrived at the checkpoint around 10:30 a.m. PT, though she was not on site when it happened.
"They immediately began arresting people, as far as we know," Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, said in an interview with CBC News.
Corporate tax breaks are the future of Canadian climate policy, according to the latest federal budget, which commits $80 billion over the next decade — of which $56 billion is new money — to subsidies for clean investments.
B.C. is taking valuable steps but the new budget is full of mixed climate signals.
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that future action to curb emissions will become progressively more difficult — and undoubtedly more expensive — with every increment of warming.
