"You can't be saying these deals are still compatible with net-zero by 2050. They're not. The deal is not compatible with it. Just be honest with Canadians about this." said @simondonner.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @cbcnews.ca
This is a devastating loss. Dr Raúl Pacheco-Vega, a UBC alumnus and former UBC faculty member, was a warm and engaging human being who put great effort into supporting students and other early career researchers develop their scholarship. Such an authentic person. He will be greatly missed.
New modelling supports what many have been saying about the Canada-Alberta deal. It is bad emissions math. This may lock Canada into a industrial C pricing system that is far too weak to make up for concessions around a new pipeline, carbon capture, etc.
440megatonnes.ca/insight/cana...
Interesting debate about the limits of pressuring investors on climate change action, which is essentially an argument for strengthening climate policy.
www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/03/i...
Why I'm worried:
i) lack of details in the Alberta deal about the benchmark tightening rate (given ample research and advice),
ii) deal's language around "cost sharing" on contracts for difference; could turn a good idea into subsidizing high-emitting companies that can afford emissions cuts
Hope for meaningful emissions cuts from industrial pricing now rest heavily on negotiations around tightening the emissions benchmarks and the delivery of "contracts for difference", which encourage companies to act by locking in the future carbon price (regardless of future policy changes). (1/2)
The business case for LNG just keeps getting weaker...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/03/o...
How the Words "Be Average" Saved Me
open.substack.com/pub/mypublis...
A former member of Canada's top climate body said the pipeline deal Canada signed with Alberta is incompatible with Carney government's net-zero target.