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September 13, 2017
BLOG: All Levels of Governments Must Support the IPCC
September 13, 2017
Governments and civil society, including Citizens’ Climate Lobby, depend on the work of the IPCC. The IPCC reports are invaluable documents to help all governments make smart, evidence-based decisions for our future. The price tag of $6 million dollars is priceless is comparison to the real world scenarios of…

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April 12, 2017
MEDIA RELEASE: Earth Day and Beyond Let’s Talk Carbon Pricing
April 12, 2017
Sudbury ON: Climate change is real, it is us, it is bad and there is hope. Where is the hope? It is a solvable problem. Pricing carbon pollution is key and we don’t have to burden the taxpayer. Canadians need to know that our country’s current greenhouse…

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January 30, 2017
MEDIA RELEASE: A “Great” America Needs Canada
January 30, 2017
Parliament Must Even the Playing Field and Save the Climate with Border Tax Adjustments … The writing is on the wall: the trend to clean energy is now irreversible. Canada should not follow the U.S. on its fossil-fueled folly. As it stands Canada is struggling to catch up in…

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December 12, 2016
MEDIA RELEASE: The Solution is Border Tax Adjustments Premier Wall
December 12, 2016
Saskatchewan Premier Wall has expressed concerns about industries uprooting to the U.S. to avoid paying the carbon tax. This can be avoided by imposing a border tax adjustment. A carbon tax on imported carbon intensive goods like steel and cement will level the playing field for carbon-intense and trade…

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November 24, 2016
CCL Canada Education Call, November 2016: The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production with Adam Scott of Oil Change International
November 24, 2016
The data from Oil Change International is quite clear: If you understand climate change, you would not build another pipeline.

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August 12, 2016
LASER TALK: Momentum is building for a national price on carbon pollution
August 12, 2016
We can make 2017 a year when we not only celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and its 100 years since Vimy Ridge commemorative events, but also finally start shifting some of PM Borden’s regressive and “temporary income tax of 1917” towards pollution taxes. After all, we should be taxing the…

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