Policy Analysis

Turning the "Clean Energy" Superpower Oxymoron into Reality

By John Drexhage on August 30, 2007

In this IISD Commentary, Climate Change and Energy Director John Drexhage offers some ideas about how Canada can move toward international clean energy leadership. An initial step, writes Drexhage, would be for the federal government to convene a first ministers' conference on the matter. This article originally appeared in the Embassy, Canada's Foreign Policy Newsweekly.

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