Cut carbon pollution in line with Paris target?

This curation of information published online by four of the parties seeking our vote in October includes text from the Green “Mission Possible”, the NDP “New Deal for Climate Action and Jobs”, the Liberal “Climate Policy”, and the Conservative Party of Canada “Real Plan to Protect Our Environment”.

Clean Energy Canada  5 key Questions

This post is the result of research on the Clean Energy Canada question “Does the plan cut carbon pollution in line with Paris targets?

The question for this post

The Green 20 StepAction plan calls for holding the global average temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees.

We must, as a community of nations, ensure that global average temperature does not rise more than 1.5 degrees C over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
The Paris Agreement – to which Canada and all nations on earth are legally committed – calls for holding the global average temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees1

Green 20-step Climate Action Plan

NDP Climate Change Policy highlights the Power to Change Canada’s pollution targets so they’re in line with what scientists say is needed to stop dangerous climate change.

Setting targets and meeting them. Revising Canada’s pollution targets so they’re in line with what scientists say is needed to stop dangerous climate change – and then holding ourselves to hitting them.2

NDP Climate Change Policy

Power to Change

Liberal Climate Policy identifies that a greater-than-two-degree increase in average global temperatures would have a catastrophic impact.

These targets must recognise the economic cost and catastrophic impact that a greater-than-two-degree increase in average global temperatures would represent, as well as the need for Canada to do its part to prevent that from happening.3

Liberal Climate Policy

Conservative Party of Canada claims their plan is our best choice to meet the Paris targets.

A Real Plan to Protect Our Environment is Canada’s best chance to meet the Paris targets.4 

CPC Real Plan

Our analysis of these claims is best done with and awareness of confirmation bias that too often dulls our critical thinking. We need to work on analysis of the facts and perhaps the development of some ”common ground” thinking in support of a possible minority government dealing with the climate emergency.

References

1	(n.d.). Mission Possible - Green Party of Canada. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from https://www.greenparty.ca/en/mission-possible
2	(n.d.). A New Deal for Climate Action and Good Jobs « Canada's NDP. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from https://www.ndp.ca/climate-and-jobs
3	(n.d.). Climate change | Liberal Party of Canada. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/climate-change/
4	(n.d.). A Real Plan to Protect Our Environment. Retrieved August 13, 2019, from https://arealplan.ca/