Canada must legislate climate targets to avoid embarrassment at COP26

Experts from the nation’s environmental community agree that Canada must enact accountability legislation if we are to reach emissions reduction targets.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is pictured leaving the West Block on Oct. 21, 2020. The Liberal government has made a welcome commitment to net-zero legislation. However, setting long-term targets in law is not enough.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CATHERINE ABREU, JULIA CROOME, ANDREW GAGE, DALE MARSHALL, AND MARC-ANDRé VIAU

November 18, 2020

For the past quarter-century, late autumn has marked the beginning of the UN’s annual climate negotiations. Had 2020 gone as planned, thousands of negotiators, diplomats, journalists, activists, land protectors, and elected officials would be gathering in Glasgow for the 26th Conference...

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