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Another election, another clear climate mandate

Clean Energy Canada

When the additional measures announced in the new climate platform are included, a “triangulation” of existing modelling done by economist Mark Jaccard suggests they could achieve the 40% target.

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Pundits’ whataboutism threatens Canada’s climate progress

Clean Energy Canada

If they had, they may have concluded — as Simon Fraser University economist Mark Jaccard did — that Canada has, under this government, emerged as a global leader and an example for climate action. Neither of these columnists bothered to actually look at the track record of what the Liberals accomplished in office.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

The constraining factor has always been political feasibility, not economic feasibility,” said Mark Jaccard , a political economist and energy modeling expert at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. One could scarcely ask for a better example of how this plays out in the real world than Washington Gov.

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Media brief: How do the federal parties stack up on climate?

Clean Energy Canada

When the additional measures announced in the new climate platform are included, a “triangulation” of existing modelling done by economist Mark Jaccard suggests they could achieve the 40% target. How much would the plans cost?