Environmental and economic impact of British energy policy
Peter Wooders, the director of our Energy program, calls on the UK to stop subsidising fossil fuels.
Peter Wooders, the director of our Energy program, calls on the UK to stop subsidising fossil fuels.
Scott Vaughan, president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said the common ground staked out by Trudeau and Obama is the "the first time in 15, 16 years that you've got two political leaders in Canada and the U.S. that are of the same mind to be able to talk about climate."
“The U.S. EPA has been moving on this pretty systematically now for three of four years and with the agreement today Canada is going to have to figure out how it’s going to align and get on board,” said Scott Vaughan, president and CEO of the International Institute of Sustainable Development.
“I think there’s been a fundamental shift from Ottawa’s perception of climate related issues,” said Vaughan, who is currently president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. “In the Arctic it’s profoundly more serious and accelerating more rapidly than anywhere else in the world. We need to move on this urgently.”