The future of emissions trading: can Canada come up with a business case for a ‘businessman-president’?

If Canada wants to matter more to our allies, helping create an Article 6-like system that allows for progress even with the U.S. outside of the Paris Agreement, would be a great service to the cause of emissions reductions and a boon to our own interests as an energy-exporting powerhouse.

Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, and Pierre Poilievre. Perhaps Canada, supported by some of the 'friends' in friend-shoring, can come up with a persuasive enough proposition to convince a deal-loving, transactional president-elect that carbon can be addressed through the market mechanism with which he’s familiar. Wikimedia Commons and The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ARASH GOLSHAN

November 15, 2024

For the next little while, the key action on the climate front will take place in two capital cities 12 time zones and a world apart: Baku, Azerbaijan, and Washington, D.C.

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