Canada and Climate Change
There is a new government in Ottawa, led by a party that promised, during the long election campaign, to provide national leadership on climate change, put a price on carbon and work with the provinces to lower emissions.
As Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to attend important international climate talks in Paris this month, the Monitor looks at the state of play of climate and energy policy in Canada and its global context. The CCPA is “concerned with ‘the good life,’ not technical fixes that leave social and economic wealth inequality in place,” writes guest editor Marc Lee in his introduction. “A just and sustainable 21st century is possible, but we are going to have to work for it, together.”
Here is a sample of what you will find inside this issue:
- Editorial: End of a painful era, by Stuart Trew
- Is Canada’s failure to lower climate emissions unlawful or above the law? by Gail Davidson and Rohan Shaw
- Civil disobedience as a tool for setting Canada’s climate agenda, by Daniel Cayley-Daoust
- Can the Internet of Things be democratized? by Vincent Mosco
- Books: Two very different takes on western responses to terrorism, by Clare Mian
Cover illustration by Guillermo Trejo
