Harnessing Canada’s entrepreneurial spirit to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

We need to both reduce current emissions and invest into removing past emissions.

A study from Norway suggests that accumulated atmospheric CO2 can take up to 50 years before it fully impacts our climate. That means that the extreme climate events that we are currently experiencing might only reflect CO2 emissions from the 1970s, writes ISG Senator Colin Deacon. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CSG SENATOR COLIN DEACON

August 15, 2024

If a room is increasingly filling with smoke, it’s important to slow how quickly that’s happening. But remember: things are still getting worse, just more slowly. At some point, you’ve got to start to clear the air.

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