Our thanks to the following for their financial assistance: the Brainerd Foundation; the British Columbia Federation of Labour; the Canadian Auto Workers Union; the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada; the David Suzuki Foundation; the Endswell Foundation; the George Cedric Metcalfe Foun- dation; the International Fund for Animal Welfare; Mountain Equipment Co-op; Pulp, Paper, [...] The significant trends that have occurred over the last decade in the energy sector include: • Increased production of coal, oil and gas, and electricity in Canada; • Increased exports of energy, especially in the oil and gas sector, which now exports over 50% of production to the U. S.; • Decreased Canadian oil and gas reserves (excluding the tar sands reserves) and, in the case of oil, a corresp [...] This section also details the international agreements that have put Canada in a position to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and join with much of the rest of the world in addressing human impact on the climate. [...] The IPCC, established by the World Meteorological Organization and the UN Environment Programme in 1988, has as its mandate to compile and assess all the research published on the world’s climate and climate change, and to provide advice on courses of action. [...] For example, over the last century in British Colum- believe that our bia, average temperatures have increased by 0.6oC on the Coast, by 1.1oC in the Interior and by atmosphere is 1.7oC in the North.9 warming, that the Globally, it is very likely that the 1990s was the warmest decade – and 1998 the warmest year world’s climate is – since the mid-1800s.10 They are likely the warmest decade and year
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Table of Contents
- April 2002 1
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- Contents 3
- List of tables and figures 4
- Summary 5
- Introduction 8
- The science and policy of climate change The need to 10
- Increases in greenhouse gas concentrations 10
- SECTION 1 10
- Climate change 11
- Natural or human influenced 11
- Forecasts for the future 12
- Impacts of climate change 12
- Canadian impacts of climate change 13
- International action on climate change 14
- Coal mining 16
- SECTION 2 16
- The energy sector in Canada 16
- Oil production 18
- Natural gas production 20
- Electricity generation transmission and distribution 21
- Non-electric renewable energy and energy efficiency 23
- Important trends in Canadas energy sector 24
- Greenhouse gas emissions 26
- Using the earths energy in BC 28
- A new energy economy 28
- SECTION 3 28
- Alberta wind power 29
- The Toronto Atmospheric Fund 30
- Producing ethanol from biomass 30
- Energy efficiency at Labatt brewery 31
- SECTION 4 32
- Canadian policies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions 33
- Impacts of government policy 35
- Other reasons to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels 37
- Impacts on employment A likely scenario 39
- SECTION 5 39
- Jobs and Just Transition 39
- Regional effects on employment 42
- A Just Transition plan for workers 42
- Why many displaced workers will quickly find work 46
- The cost of a Just Transition program 47
- Paying for Just Transition 49
- Other smart investments 50
- Other policy changes to decrease displacement 53
- Conclusions 54
- Endnotes 56
- References 59
