We Asked Two Experts to Evaluate Each Party’s Climate Plan | The Tyee
how they intend to respond to the emergency of rising global
temperatures. The Liberals haven’t yet released a climate platform, but
are expected to build on policies the party is already implementing.
Meanwhile the news about climate change is getting scarier. Last October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calculated
we have until 2030 to halve global emissions, or else risk
destabilizing the foundation for human civilization. An April report
from the federal government warned that Canada is already warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. And in May, the United Nations predicted
about a million species could go extinct because of global temperature
rise and other human activities — a finding that received significantly
less media coverage than the birth of a royal baby.
With so much at stake, and with wildly
different proposals for what to do, The Tyee reached out to two
non-partisan experts for assistance in parsing and evaluating each
party’s plan.