Jeff Beyer

Eye of the Storm

21 October, 2010 | Jeff Beyer
 EUROPE accepts the seriousness of climate change and has come to terms with how deeply carbon underpins our current economy. Europeans also look at both sides of the issue’s cost-benefit equation, and are figuring out ways to maximize the benefits. Canada, on the other hand, still clings to the notion that economic growth is inevitably tethered to rising greenhouse gas emissions and focuses almost exclusively on the costs associated with transitioning to a low-carbon economy. These contrasting approaches to climate change are producing drastically different results. ...
Published in: Biodiversity 36.6

Black Box of Federal Climate Policy

9 June, 2010 | Jeff Beyer

There have always been strains between Canadian provinces. Differences in prosperity, language and geography are thorns that tend to irk interprovincial relations, and climate change is emerging as the latest thorn.

The new federal greenhouse gas target of a 17-per-cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 (released through the Copenhagen Accord) will actually let national emissions rise compared to 1990. Since the federal government has not yet released its plan for how to meet that target, the provinces are busy calculating what impact these reductions will have ...
 

Eye of the Storm: Time for a New Deal

17 February, 2010 | Jeff Beyer

With almost 20 years of negotiations behind us and greenhouse gas emissions rising faster than the federal deficit, perhaps the time has come to look for alternative approaches to tackling climate change. As University of Victoria professor Michael M’Gonigle suggested in The Tyee in December, could it be that Copenhagen’s failure was a good thing?

Eye of the Storm: Discord in Denmark

15 December, 2009 | Jeff Beyer
 Environment Minister Jim Prentice insists that Canada must march to America’s climate­ drum, but the rest of the world is singing a different tune. Throughout the year, Prentice insisted that his ministry would “ensure that all of our domestic climate change policies are clearly enunciated to the Canadian public by the time we get to Copenhagen.” On November 2, however, he conceded that greenhouse gas regulations would not be announced before December’s international climate change conference.
Published in: New Energy 36.1
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