Half measures won’t get us off the starting line in global race to net zero

Will Canada finally get it right on climate? Rather than focus on what is probable, let’s focus on what is necessary.

If, as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stated, the government believes that 'we need to see climate action as just a pure, hard economic question, a question of the sustainability and international competitiveness of the Canadian economy,' then more action is necessary if we wish to stay in the race, writes ISG Senator Rosa Galvez. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

June 3, 2021

It seems like it is now every day that we get international signals that climate action is happening much quicker than expected. The last month saw Shell being forced by a Dutch court to cut carbon emissions by 2030, Germany forced by a court to adopt more ambitious climate measures to protect futur...

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