Millions of people worldwide are either indifferent to a carbon tax or opposed. If citizens were motivated by potential carbon dividends, maybe politicians would finally take action on climate change.
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An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta's plan to combat climate change.
The country's carbon emissions should level off again soon.
The average consumerist suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. But what if affluent suburbanites and battlers alike ditch the rat race and embrace economic 'degrowth'? Here's how it might unfold.
Drivers buy less gas when filling the tank burns holes in their wallets.
Multiple studies have found the overall impact on labor markets to be minor, even if some workers will need new career paths.
A Green New Deal would confront both climate change and social inequality. Its prospects in the United States are uncertain, but Canada should endeavour to develop one of its own anyway.
The 'thin green line' of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles. But it faces a new source of pressure: the Trump administration.
Canada has joined the international community in calling for a transition away from fossil fuels. There is no reason to wait for more painful disruption before planning for that transition.
The UK's "illegal" backup power subsidy scheme effectively subsidised fossil fuel power generation. Lets use the hiatus to build a more flexible, low carbon energy system.
The head of the World Health Organization calls air pollution 'the new tobacco' because it causes millions of preventable deaths yearly. Fine particle pollution is especially deadly.
Anti-fossil fuel activism is gaining ground where previous climate campaigns have failed, largely because it resonates better with people.
Despite politically powerful coal communities helping elect a president who vowed guarantee their continued prosperity, their future remains more uncertain than ever.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
Big oil and gas companies spent far more fighting this ballot initiative than the measure's supporters did.
Burning natural gas produces less greenhouse gases than coal or oil. But the methane emissions associated with natural gas production and liquefaction threaten to erode its environmental benefits.
A study of the social cost of carbon emitted by the shrinking fleet of Texan coal plants suggests that closing more of them down would be good for the climate and public health.
Bill C-69 will slow down Canada's efforts to transition to a decarbonized and sustainable economy.
When nations resist compelling reasons to shift from one form of energy to another they can fall behind for an entire generation or more.
Explaining how carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems work is simpler than figuring out how high those taxes and caps should be.
Top contributors
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Climate Justice Campaigner with 350Africa.org, PhD in Philosophy (Climate Ethics), University of Washington
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Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Departmental Visitor, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Research Fellow DECRA, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
