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Author McConaghy, Dennis

Title Carbon Change Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization
Published Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (210 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The Climate and Energy Context -- Chapter 1 The UN Climate Process: How We Got to Decarbonization -- Chapter 2 The Orthodoxy: From Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Budgets to Decarbonization -- Chapter 3 Reality: The Grim Cost of Decarbonization -- Chapter 4 Before the Fall: Canadian Energy Developments from the Beginning of 2019 to March 2020 -- Chapter 5 Early 2020: The Advent of Covid-19 -- Chapter 6 The Descent to Glasgow -- Part Two: Reconsidering Climate Policy
Chapter 7 Covid-19 Sacrifice as Predicate for Decarbonization? -- Chapter 8 Reconsidering Decarbonization: Not a Hoax ... but Not an Apocalypse -- Chapter 9 Oh, Canada! -- Chapter 10 Hope and Realism -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index -- About the Author
Summary Energy commentator Dennis McConaghy takes an in-depth look at the public policies surrounding decarbonization in Canada and the costs and sacrifices it will take to get to net zero. He then lays out a more balanced approach that maximizes global human welfare while still using hydrocarbons optimally
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781459750531
1459750535