TGM #159: Countdown to Copenhagen (October 16, 2009)
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Joanna Dafoe speaks with P.J. Partington, a climate change policy analyst for the Pembina Institute, to discuss Canada’s role in the UN climate change negotiations. Partington deals with climate change policy at the federal and international level. He is a founding member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and has previously managed the highly successful Canadian Youth Delegation to the UN climate negotiations.
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Ecological Economist Peter Victor joins us to consider how Canada might be able to make room for steady-state economics within a shifting economic context.
Countdown to Copenhagen
Steady-state economics
Headlines:
- Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announces green technology investment as campaign centrepiece
- Environmentalist David Suzuki wins “alternative” Nobel prize
- Vancouver announces a deal with Nissan to bring a new line of electric cars to Canada in 2011
- Toronto’s controversial downtown-airport express train gets OK’d by province
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledges $769 million to retrofit coal plant with carbon capture technology
- Jim Prentice denies reports that dozens of counties walked out of Canada’s climate presentation
- UN’s “Blue Carbon” report identifies coastal ecosystems as ally against climate change
- International seed bank collection reaches 10% of world’s wild plants
- More headlines…