Emissions reduction plan must invest more in Canada’s guiltiest GHG-heavy industries

Investments in the buildings sector, the third-largest source of national emissions, are far below the amount required to adapt Canadian communities to climate change.

The emissions reduction plan, announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in late March, represents the most ambitious environmental strategy that the federal government has produced to-date.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DANIEL KATZ

June 27, 2022

The federal government’s 2030 emissions reduction plan invests heavily on transportation sectors and economy-wide measures, yet when it comes to addressing greenhouse gases from some of the guiltiest sectors—for example, oil and gas, buildings, and heavy industries—the plan makes few funding c...

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