Carbon Change

Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization

Dennis McConaghy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2023
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5051-7 (ISBN)

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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.

An investigation into the scale and costs of transitioning our energy systems to achieve net-zero emissions.

Canada and the rest of the developed world have committed to decarbonizing basic energy systems, but do this country’s citizens and governments truly understand the sacrifices ahead and are we willing to accept those sacrifices in the name of reducing the impact of climate change? Will the rest of the developed world take on the necessary costs, and will Canada forge ahead with decarbonization, even if other countries do not?

Carbon Change explores this most visceral of public policy choices for Canada, with a deep dive into recent North American energy and climate policy, the enduring impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and political processes across the developed world with respect to dealing with climate change risks. It offers a dispassionate analysis of the scale and cost of trying to realize the aspiration of decarbonization. Dennis McConaghy asks if a more balanced and nuanced approach is possible to mitigate the effects of climate change, while still optimally using hydrocarbons to maximize global human welfare.

Dennis McConaghy is a Canadian energy executive who has nearly forty years of industry experience in infrastructure development and is the author of Dysfunction: Canada after Keystone XL and Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future, which won the Donner Prize. He lives in Calgary.

Contents
Introduction 1
Part One: The Climate and Energy Context
1 The UN Climate Process: How We Got to Decarbonization 11
2 The Orthodoxy: From Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Budgets to Decarbonization 19
3 Reality: The Grim Cost of Decarbonization 29
4 Before the Fall: Canadian Energy Developments from the Beginning of 2019 to March 2020 43
5 Early 2020: The Advent of Covid-19 63
6 The Descent to Glasgow 79
Part Two: Reconsidering Climate Policy
7 Covid-19 Sacrifice as Predicate for Decarbonization? 119
8 Reconsidering Decarbonization: Not a Hoax…but Not an Apocalypse 141
9 Oh, Canada! 159
10 Hope and Realism 171
Afterword 177
Acknowledgements 179
Notes 181
Suggested Reading 183
Index 187
About the Author 199

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-4597-5051-9 / 1459750519
ISBN-13	978-1-4597-5051-7 / 9781459750517
Zustand	Neuware