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Carbon Change : Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McConaghy, Dennis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy transition--Canada.
- Energy transition.
- Energy transition--Canada--Costs.
- Energy policy--Canada.
- Energy policy.
- Carbon dioxide mitigation--Canada.
- Carbon dioxide mitigation.
- Carbon dioxide mitigation--Canada--Costs.
- Climate change mitigation--Canada.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Climatic changes--Canada.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Energy commentator Dennis McConaghy takes an in-depth look at the public policies surrounding decarbonization in Canada and the costs and sacrifices it will take to get to net zero. He then lays out a more balanced approach that maximizes global human welfare while still using hydrocarbons optimally.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Climate and Energy Context
- Chapter 1 The UN Climate Process: How We Got to Decarbonization
- Chapter 2 The Orthodoxy: From Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Budgets to Decarbonization
- Chapter 3 Reality: The Grim Cost of Decarbonization
- Chapter 4 Before the Fall: Canadian Energy Developments from the Beginning of 2019 to March 2020
- Chapter 5 Early 2020: The Advent of Covid-19
- Chapter 6 The Descent to Glasgow
- Part Two: Reconsidering Climate Policy
- Chapter 7 Covid-19 Sacrifice as Predicate for Decarbonization?
- Chapter 8 Reconsidering Decarbonization: Not a Hoax … but Not an Apocalypse
- Chapter 9 Oh, Canada!
- Chapter 10 Hope and Realism
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781459750531
- 1459750535
- OCLC:
- 1348485298
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