Climate action comes with costs, Canada’s budget watchdog says
Christopher Ragan, founding director at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, said the Conservatives talk about carbon pricing without offering any glimpse of what they’ll do instead. Any alternative, including doing nothing, isn’t free, he said.“I think they’ve been quite bad at explaining it and communicating it,” he said.
That’s about what 21 million passenger cars emit over a year, and more than 40 per cent of the emissions Canada is seeking to eliminate by 2030 to hit its reduction targets.Read more:Story continues below advertisement His department has hired some outside environment communications experts to help craft a better message with a view to launching what he described as “the largest climate change awareness campaign,” likely by late spring or early summer.
The most recent report explicitly states it “does not attempt to account for the economic and environmental costs of climate change.”
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