Laser Talk

November 10, 2020
LASER TALKS: CCL Canada Updates Laser Talks in Preparation for Lobbying.
November 10, 2020
In preparation for lobbying the Canadian government post-USA election, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada has updated many of their key laser talks and assembled them into a booklet.

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November 8, 2020
LASER TALK: CCL Canada’s Climate Accountability Recommendations
November 8, 2020
Learn about developments and recommendations regarding climate accountability frameworks, which can help us reach our climate targets.

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October 11, 2020
LASER TALK: Carbon Pricing Around the World Updated
October 11, 2020
In the June 2020 paper Carbon Pricing Efficacy: Cross-Country Evidence, researchers used data from 142 countries over a period of two decades. They determined that the average annual growth rate of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion has been around 2 percentage points lower in countries that have had a carbon price…

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October 7, 2020
LASER TALKS: Climate-Motivated Financial Shake-ups in 2020
October 7, 2020
The year 2020 may very well be remembered as the year the financial market seriously awakened to the need for money to flow away from climate-destroying investments.

Even cynics amongst us should be able to see glimmers of hope in these profound shake-ups in the financial world.

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September 7, 2020
LASER TALK: Balancing the Budget, Social Concerns, and the Climate
September 7, 2020
Governments have the difficult yet doable task of balancing the budget, the climate crisis and social concerns. The Liberal Government is not on track to balancing our budget (1, 2). As well, despite signing the Paris Accord and having a national carbon pricing policy, Canada’s climate targets are still…

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July 8, 2020
LASER TALK: Enshrining U.N.D.R.I.P. Under National Law
July 8, 2020
CCL Canada acknowledges that enshrining the United Nation Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (U.N.D.R.I.P. ) under national law is part of our Reconciliation process and will also protect the air, water, land, and climate we all depend on.

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