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2007
Canada in Bali: A Backgrounder on the 2007 UN Climate Negotiations
This joint Pembina Institute and David Suzuki Foundation document covers the key issues to be negotiated in Bali at the 2007 United Nations' Climate Change Conference, summarizes Canada’s position, and assesses the Canadian government’s credibility on climate issues ahead of this crucial meeting.
Canada in Bali: A Backgrounder on the 2007 UN Climate Negotiations
Climate protection proposals for the 2008 British Columbia budget
This report submitted to British Columbia’s budget consultation process recommends that the 2008 provincial budget include major new investments in public transit and a levy on harmful carbon pollution.
Suzuki Foundation's climate protection proposals for the 2008 BC budget
Changes required to British Columbia's Standing Offer Contract
As currently proposed, BC Hydro’s “Standing Offer Proposal Rules” will not achieve the goals of the Small Power Standing Offer program as set out in the 2007 BC Energy Plan. It would, however, further delay the development of many renewable energy opportunities in British Columbia. Rather than helping
to make British Columbia a leader in the Canadian renewable energy sector, the proposed rules will instead reduce our province’s competitiveness versus other jurisdictions such as Ontario.
Changes required to BC’s Standing Offer Contract
Picking up the Slack: The Provinces’ Potential to Act on Climate Change
In the past year Canadian provinces and territories have significantly increased the level of activity—policy development, communications, etc.—surrounding climate change. The approaches vary considerably in quality and all have weaknesses, but what is clear is that provincial governments feel that they have to accept responsibility for this issue. Part of the reason could be the absence of leadership in Ottawa. But a big hole remains: the regulation of real, overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions from various economic sectors, most notably from Canadian industry.
Picking up the Slack: The Provinces’ Potential to Act on Climate Change
Intensity-Based Targets: Not the Solution to Climate Change
This David Suzuki Foundation briefing note contains important information about intensity-based targets for greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis concludes that intensity-based calculations are a kind of creative accounting; they allow greenhouse gas emissions to increase -- the opposite of the reductions urgently needed to tackle global warming. Get the details on intensity-based targets, why they won't work, and the damage they can do to the environment and to Canada's international reputation.
Intensity-based targets: Not the solution to climate change
2006
Canada and the Future of Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Canadian Action Now
The Climate Action Network Canada released this backgrounder on Jan. 29, 2007. The four page document notes that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report highlights the urgent need for Canada to produce and immediately start implementing a credible and comprehensive greenhouse-gas reduction plan.
Canada and the Future of Global Climate Policy
Briefing document on British Columbia's electricity generation future
This two-page briefing note contains the David Suzuki Foundation's key policy recommendations for the province to achieve B.C.’s electricity generation potential of 100 per cent non-polluting, renewable energy.
B.C.'s electricity generation future
Key elements of a provincial climate change plan
A three-page outline of the basic elements that any provincial or territorial climate change plan needs in order to be credible, complete and effective.
Climate change plan backgrounder
Briefing document on the proposed twinning of the Port Mann Bridge
This seven-page document outlines the problems with British Columbia's proposal to twin the Port Mann Bridge and widen Highway 1. Written by Suzuki Foundation climate change specialists, the paper also outlines alternative solutions to ease Greater Vancouver's traffic congestion.
News release| Full report
Comments Regarding the Ontario Power Authority's Supply Mix Advice Report
This Suzuki Foundation brief paper looks at the Ontario Power Authority's advice on the province's electricity future, highlighting the need for renewable energy, conservation and efficiency.
News release | Full report
Who's meeting their Kyoto targets?
This brief report from May 2006 notes that most developed countries are on track to meeting their Kyoto Protocol targets while some countries have already surpassed their Kyoto targets. A few countries, like Canada, have much work to do between now and 2012 to meet their target. Canada's target is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by six per cent below 1990 levels.
Full report
2005
Briefing Note: Canada's Climate Change Plan
This brief report from the David Suzuki Foundation analyzes the federal government's Kyoto implementation plan, released April 2005.
News release | Briefing note
Briefing Note: Access to Information documents on Canada's progress on Kyoto
The David Suzuki Foundation obtained documents from the federal government outlining Canada's progress on implementing Kyoto. The full documents, obtained using Access to Information and Privacy legislation, can be downloaded below. A short briefing note explains the key findings and conclusions of the documents.
Briefing note | Access to Information documents on Kyoto
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