CCL Canada Education: An Outsider’s View of Canada’s Carbon Pricing Policy with Joseph Robertson

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada belongs to a network of volunteers in 76 countries. Joseph Robertson, the Executive Director of Citizens’ Climate International, shared with us the global significance of Canada’s carbon pricing policy.

We need laws to protect the environment and thus civilization. We are not on track yet for protecting civilization, but there is international leadership, and Canada’s climate leadership on carbon pricing is a big part of it.

Find out why the Canadian model of carbon pricing is a role model to the world and has set Canada up to be a global leader in the clean economy.

Relevant blogs by Joe

• Stockholm+50: The health of Nature shapes our fate
• United Nations creates Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance

Links to significant things mentioned by Joe

• Microplastic found in human blood
• $130 Trillion in assets under management committed to net-zero targets at COP 26. This is one-third of all financial wealth in the world. If this money aligns, the transition is coming. The questions are: will it come fast enough and work for everyone?
• Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) The process of how Canada designed its policy is in alignment with the ACE and we are a role model.
• The full video of PM Trudeau in discussion with world leaders at COP 26

Concluding comment from a climate activist in Ukraine relayed to the world: “Build civil society in your country like your life depends on it”.