Climate Change & Energy

Energy services are everywhere around us, they keep us warm at night, power our industries and have fostered economic development that has greatly improved the standard of living in Canada. However, our current energy consumption is unsustainable.
Climate change is a direct result of an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal. Although developed countries are almost solely responsible for the problem of climate change and still produce, by far, the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, climate change affects developing countries and the most vulnerable communities in the world the hardest.
The principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” sets out that we all need to take responsibility for climate change and try to save the world from catastrophe, but we also need to protect our jobs and our domestic energy resources while building the energy economy of tomorrow.
Posted: Monday, 1 February 2010
A major medium- to long-term government investment in public transit would make a significant contribution to reduction of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, and would also create literally tens of thousands of new jobs. Such an investment would … Read More
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