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Europe’s climate change strategy: leaving Canada behind?

Europe’s climate change strategy: leaving Canada behind?. Professor James Meadowcroft Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development Carleton University CHEMRAWN XVII and ICCDU IX Conference Queens University, Kingston.

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Europe’s climate change strategy: leaving Canada behind?

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  1. Europe’s climate change strategy: leaving Canada behind? Professor James Meadowcroft Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development Carleton University CHEMRAWN XVII and ICCDU IX Conference Queens University, Kingston

  2. Europe’s climate change strategy: leaving Canada behind? • The EU experience • Canada’s story • Lessons for the future

  3. The European experience • Critical EU initiatives • Member state action • Results to date • Why such enthusiasm?

  4. Key EU initiatives • Burden sharing agreement • Emissions Trading System • Evolving suite of policies

  5. Member state action The UK example • Climate change levy • Renewable energy • Stern report • Carbon budgets • Zero carbon homes

  6. Results to date • Delivering on Kyoto • Performance by sector • Uneven national attainment

  7. Explaining European enthusiasm • EU search for foreign policy role • Pusher jurisdictions • Early success • Linkages to other issues • Concern about the problem

  8. Canada’s story • Policy disaster • The Kyoto saga

  9. Lessons for Canada • Political leadership matters • Emissions control is possible and not ruinous • Pricing carbon • New economy and opportunity agenda • International mechanisms • It isn’t going to be easy

  10. The future • Can Europe deliver? • When will Canada act?

  11. Lessons for Canada • Political leadership matters • Emissions control is possible and not ruinous • Pricing carbon • New economy and opportunity agenda • International mechanisms • It isn’t going to be easy

  12. Explaining European enthusiasm • EU search for foreign policy role • Pusher jurisdictions • Early success • Concern about the problem • Linkages to other issues

  13. EU initiatives • Burden sharing agreement • Emissions Trading System • Evolving suite of other policies

  14. Lessons for Canada • Political leadership matters • Emissions control is possible and not ruinous • Pricing carbon • New economy and opportunity agenda • International mechanisms • It isn’t going to be easy

  15. EU initiatives • Burden sharing agreement • Emissions Trading System • Evolving suite of other policies

  16. Explaining European enthusiasm • EU search for foreign policy role • Pusher jurisdictions • Early success • Public concern

  17. Explaining European enthusiasm • EU search for foreign policy role • Pusher jurisdictions • Early success • Public concern

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