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COUNTRY FOCUS: Taiwan claims its role in international climate action

Posted on Reports by · December 12, 2017 10:15 PM

In this free downloadable report, Resource Works looks at how Taiwan is dealing with pressures to curtail its greenhouse gas emissions. LNG is shaping up as a vital part of the solution.

Making the progressive case for a modern oil pipeline

Posted on Articles by · December 04, 2017 4:20 PM

TURNING POINT: Two political leaders, two views of how the expanded TransMountain pipeline project benefits Canada's environmental journey.

Sacrificing the economy to advance class-action climate lawsuits a terrible idea

Posted on Articles by · November 28, 2017 11:14 AM

An academic calling for class-action lawsuits against Canadian energy companies is ignoring the obvious fact that, ultimately, it's always the consumer who pays. That's you, writes Kim Lonsdale.

Bet you won't guess the most powerful step available to address climate change

Posted on Articles by · October 09, 2017 8:36 PM

Electric vehicles? Solar panels? Wind turbines? None of the above. Educating girls and family planning in combination offer the greatest single opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Trade is the lifeblood of our prosperity – that is why we must protect it

Posted on Articles by · September 19, 2017 11:02 AM

Resource commodities are nearly 80% of British Columbia's exports today and continue to underpin hundreds of thousands of jobs. Wrong moves on carbon pricing can hurt those workers while doing nothing for climate.

Here's what we need to know about competitiveness in the carbon pricing era

Posted on Articles by · April 18, 2017 8:56 AM

Carbon pricing in individual Canadian provinces—if not matched by equivalent carbon prices in other jurisdictions—can potentially create competitiveness pressures on individual economic sectors. Check out the Ecofiscal Commission's findings on this issue.

Stewart Muir provides fresh perspective, seeks middle ground at UBC pipeline panel discussion

Posted on Articles by · January 09, 2017 6:57 AM

They packed the room in C.K. Choi Building at UBC on a snowy Friday afternoon looking for insights into energy policy and climate change. And Resource Works Executive Director Stewart Muir delivered a fresh perspective on Canada's sometimes-puzzling public policy on pipelines.

For B.C.'s climate vision to succeed, federal leadership is past due

Posted on Articles by · August 24, 2016 8:15 AM

Researchers at North Carolina's Duke University recently lauded the B.C. carbon tax, observing that it has been "a politically difficult policy to implement, because support and opposition are concentrated in particular groups."

British Columbia is Canada's uncontested climate leader - here's the evidence

Posted on Articles by · August 10, 2016 4:25 PM

The long-waited BC climate policy update must not punish residents with unfair anti-affordability measures that let other provinces off the hook.

Energy fireworks making for a summer to remember on the west coast

Posted on Articles by · July 13, 2016 9:32 AM

Is the Paris Agreement on climate change a license for draconian, ill-considered attempts to radically overturn the world’s existing energy distribution systems?

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COUNTRY FOCUS: Taiwan claims its role in international climate action

In this free downloadable report, Resource Works looks at how Taiwan is dealing with pressures to curtail its greenhouse gas emissions. LNG is shaping up as a vital part of the solution.

Making the progressive case for a modern oil pipeline

TURNING POINT: Two political leaders, two views of how the expanded TransMountain pipeline project benefits Canada's environmental journey.

Sacrificing the economy to advance class-action climate lawsuits a terrible idea

An academic calling for class-action lawsuits against Canadian energy companies is ignoring the obvious fact that, ultimately, it's always the consumer who pays. That's you, writes Kim Lonsdale.

Bet you won't guess the most powerful step available to address climate change

Electric vehicles? Solar panels? Wind turbines? None of the above. Educating girls and family planning in combination offer the greatest single opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Trade is the lifeblood of our prosperity – that is why we must protect it

Resource commodities are nearly 80% of British Columbia's exports today and continue to underpin hundreds of thousands of jobs. Wrong moves on carbon pricing can hurt those workers while doing nothing for climate.

Here's what we need to know about competitiveness in the carbon pricing era

Carbon pricing in individual Canadian provinces—if not matched by equivalent carbon prices in other jurisdictions—can potentially create competitiveness pressures on individual economic sectors. Check out the Ecofiscal Commission's findings on this issue.

Stewart Muir provides fresh perspective, seeks middle ground at UBC pipeline panel discussion

They packed the room in C.K. Choi Building at UBC on a snowy Friday afternoon looking for insights into energy policy and climate change. And Resource Works Executive Director Stewart Muir delivered a fresh perspective on Canada's sometimes-puzzling public policy on pipelines.

For B.C.'s climate vision to succeed, federal leadership is past due

Researchers at North Carolina's Duke University recently lauded the B.C. carbon tax, observing that it has been "a politically difficult policy to implement, because support and opposition are concentrated in particular groups."

British Columbia is Canada's uncontested climate leader - here's the evidence

The long-waited BC climate policy update must not punish residents with unfair anti-affordability measures that let other provinces off the hook.

Energy fireworks making for a summer to remember on the west coast

Is the Paris Agreement on climate change a license for draconian, ill-considered attempts to radically overturn the world’s existing energy distribution systems?

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