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12 hours ago · Importantly, neither at trial nor before the Court of Appeal did Ontario ever challenge the basic facts regarding human-caused climate change and its risks to human health and well-being.
2 days ago · November 19th, 2024. The Court of Appeal for Ontario has given new life to the climate change-based Charter claims of seven Ontario youth in Mathur v Ontario. [1] I previously wrote about Ontario’s failed motion to strike out the Mathur applicants’ claims in Ontario Superior Court Refuses to Strike Out Climate Change Charter Application.
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Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, welcomed Royal Assent of the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which has become law. It marks the first time a Canadian government has legislated emissions reductions accountability to address climate change, by setting legal requirements on the current government and future governments to plan, report, and course correct on the path to net-zero emissions by or before 2050.
June 30, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario
The best available science and economic analysis tells us that getting to net-zero emissions in the next 30 years is essential to avert the worst impacts of climate change and fully seize the economic opportunities that it presents. That’s why the Government of Canada has committed to reach net zero by 2050.
Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, welcomed Royal Assent of the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which has become law. It marks the first time a Canadian government has legislated emissions reductions accountability to address climate change, by setting legal requirements on the current government and future governments to plan, report, and course correct on the path to net-zero emissions by or before 2050.
More specifically, the Act:
•Enshrines in legislation Canada’s commitment to set national targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada with the objective of attaining net-zero emissions by 2050.
“We promised to legislate net-zero emissions by 2050 and put in place legally-binding targets, and yesterday we delivered on that promise. Canada’s new net-zero law provides the long-term confidence and certainty required to attract investment and ensure that Canadians are delivering products and services that will be in high demand the world over, now and well into the future. Climate change is the biggest long-term threat of our generation, but it is also the greatest economic opportunity.”
– The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
•Having net-zero emissions—where there are no greenhouse gas emissions or where emissions are completely offset by other actions that remove climate-warming gasses from the atmosphere—is essential to keeping the world safe and livable for future generations.
•Canada has joined over 120 countries that have responded to the United Nations call to commit to net-zero emissions. This commitment mirrors the efforts of all other G7 nations (United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, United States and France). Hundreds of cities around the world have also made their own net-zero commitments including Vancouver, Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.
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