Senior policy advisor Joanna Kyriazis made the following testimony on January 30, 2019 to the Federal Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on the costs of climate inaction,...
Imagine you’re buying a car. The first dealership you check out has a number of them. You can test drive these cars, you know other people who have them and you can read reviews online. The second...
No one can say where the road ahead will take Canada, but here’s a safe bet: it’s going to have a lot more electric cars on it. That’s especially true in BC, one of Canada’s electric vehicle...
Ontarians awoke to a cold reality check Tuesday morning—in a province that’s literally heating up. Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Dianne Saxe didn’t mince words in her 2018 Greenhouse...
Protests. Politics. Polarization. Whether you’re reading a newspaper, tuning into the news, or scrolling through Twitter, you’ll notice a common theme: coverage of energy and climate change is...
On July 19, Environment and Climate Change Canada announced it would split the Clean Fuel Standard into two distinct regulations: one focused on liquid fuels, primarily gasoline and diesel, and...
Energy: it’s a topic Canadian politicians can’t stop talking about. But the energy conversation is often framed around what we need to cut in the decades ahead—oil production, carbon pollution....
Today the federal government announced new regulations for heavy- and medium-duty vehicles, including school buses, transport tractors and trailers, garbage trucks, delivery vans, and larger pickup...
The carbon tax in B.C., a carbon levy in Alberta, cap and trade in Ontario and Quebec. As far as political footballs go, carbon pricing sees a lot of action. No doubt you’ve heard the phrase...
A win for our economy, consumers and the climate? It may sound like an elusive unicorn, but energy efficiency checks all of the above boxes. Although they are under-reported, measures to help homes,...
Protests. Politics. Polarization. Pipelines are dominating our national discourse once again. Is it a serious issue? Certainly. And yet the time and attention it’s consuming risks distracting...
Change happens, with or without us. Just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century-old expectations around electricity, transportation and oil...