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Climate Change


Climate Change Background and Issues

Votes: 3

Canada and Climate Change

Feature Issue March 2009

“We are launching a clean energy dialogue on one of the most important challenges of the next decade, and that is climate change.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Press Conference with US President Barack Obama; February 19, 2009)

Overview

Environmental issues were a key topic of discussion during US President Obama’s recent visit to Canada. Both governments have indicated that they will be engaging in a “Clean Energy Dialogue” and taking serious action to deal with climate change. We can thus expect climate change to again be at the forefront of political debate in the coming weeks and months.

Target: March 14th

Your ideas are needed now.
Recipient: Briefing notes will be submitted to the Minister of the Environment. Identify and outline the policy that you think Canada should adopt to deal with the climate change crisis.

Key Questions

Each Policy Submission must address one or more of the following questions. (Can you improve these questions?)

How closely should Canada’s policies be linked to the US? We should take the time to lead on this issue and show the world what can be done . Make our country a place to develop new technologies and ways to improve the methods that are used now .

This could be done with very little investment by government , just some seed money for plants and tax breaks for levels of people employed . For once we could lead not follow .

Should our focus be bilateral or multilateral?

What position should Canada adopt at the Copenhagen conference?

How does the economic crisis impact actions on climate change?

Fact is, because of the economic turmoil, companies are using substandard and low-cost materials to save on operational costs. Thus, compromising the environmental effects that those kind of materials emit. This is

Related resources for essay writers (external link)

, environmentalists (external link)

, and virtually, for all of us:
1. Climate Change Expert Worries Financial Crisis Will be 'Excuse' to Delay Action (external link)

2. Financial crisis threatens climate-change momentum (external link)

3. Economic crisis impacts plans for fighting climate change (external link)

How will this impact Canadian industry?

How many green jobs can Canada create?

What added responsibility does Canada have as an energy superpower?

Expert Analysis

Mark Jaccard

“Canadian Climate Policy: the Past, the Present and the Future”

Jaccard Overview)

Dr. David Suzuki

Co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, as well as an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster
Suzuki Analysis

Ian Morton

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Summerhill Group

Morton Analysis.

Additional (Resources)

Positions

(List of Positions) and either vote on them, post a comment, edit an existing note or create your own using the built-in wiki tools. Be sure to abide by the Policy Note Guidelines and also the Code of Conduct.

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Page last modified on Thursday 06 of August, 2009 21:03:41 EDT.