Sustainability & Climate Change Reporter

Monthly Archives: May 2011

Canada’s Election Cools Climate Policies

Posted in Climate Change

Canada’s federal election on May 2 giving Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party a majority in Parliament means that it is unlikely Canada’s climate change policies will change much, if at all, from its previous wait-and-see-what-the-U.S.-does approach.   This would leave climate policy up to individual provinces, four of which have said they would join with California in a cap-and-trade program.  Those efforts, however, may have to await the… Continue Reading