[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary Ryan Durante, Jenna Phillips and Tatyana Feiner With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...
Brainstorming Session: What are the next steps for Canada in terms of ‘green transitioning?’
[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary #2 Tatyana Feiner, Ryan Durante, Jenna Phillips With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...
Roundtable One: Where have we seen progress, and what are biggest challenges?
[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary #1 Jenna Phillips, Tatyana Feiner and Ryan Durante With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...
Chapter 18 | Examining the ‘participatory turn’ in forestry governance – what potential does it hold for a green and just transitions?
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Governance of public forests (92% of forests in Canada) is frequently contested due to competing land use values (timber extraction, carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, amongst...
Chapter 17 | Sustainability Transitions Across the Agri-Food Landscape in Canada
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives There are three core perspectives on agrifood sustainability, each of which emphasizes different dimensions of agri-food (un)sustainability and locates “the problem” and “the solution” very...
Chapter 16 | Canadian Biodiversity Policy in the “Last, Best Chance to Save Nature” Decade
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives It is increasingly recognized that effectively conserving biodiversity can be used to achieve transformative change to address other societal challenges, such as climate change, and will be...
Chapter 15 | Water Policy and the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Canadians are starting to realize the climate crisis is a water crisis as they observe fundamental challenges related to flooding, droughts, wildfires, and water quality issues Water rights...
Chapter 14 | Assessing Ottawa’s Paths to Net-Zero through an Energy Sustainability Lens
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Many argue that energy system transitions in the direction of net-zero need to advance wider sustainability goals, such as reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples The Trudeau...
Chapter 13 | Northern Energy Transitions
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives The Canadian North contributes the least to carbon emissions and yet it is the hardest hit by the impact of climate change. The North is also the most vulnerable to energy insecurity, in terms of...
Chapter 12 | Canada and International Engagement: Can Canada Be A Leader in the Global Green Transition?
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages (DRAFT) Perspectives Canada is one of many states that faces a major quandary regarding its global climate identity. Canada relies heavily on fossil fuel production and dependent industries, such as...
Chapter 11 | The Green Transition in North America: A 2030-for-2050 Net Zero Strategy
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Canada and the U.S. are ‘interlocked’ with one another by overlapping economic, environmental and security interdependences, and share broad perspectives on climate mitigation targets (2030...
Chapter 10 | Urban Politics of Climate and Energy Transitions
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Transformative change in urban areas requires that we embrace a broader understanding of what makes for a good life, and develop contextual understandings of what drives existing inequalities and...
Chapter 9 | The Low-Carbon Transition, Federalism and Policy Durability in Canada
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives National climate policies will need to be able to survive deeply-rooted differences in perspectives about how we should approach GHG mitigation across regions in Canada Differing...
Chapter 8 | Sustainability Approaches in Northern Indigenous Communities
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Chapter 7: Inside the Federal Government: Mobilizing Policy Tools for the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives The federal decision-making machinery is governed by conventional, hierarchical norms regarding decision-making roles and responsibilities, and tends toward closed decision processes in which...
Chapter 6: Environmental Law for a Just Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Environmental law has furthered ‘extractivism’, a mode of accumulation that necessitates both a high pace and a large scale of taking, that is non-reciprocal, and that produces intense,...
Chapter 5: Business and Multi-Sectoral Collaboration for Sustainability Transitions
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Each of the three sectoral spheres – the market, the state and civil society – has a logic defined by its governance norms, or the intentions, functions, and rules of interaction by which it...
Chapter 4: Environmental Activism and Strategies for the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives There are a wide range of perspectives within the environmental movement in Canada regarding the roots of environmental decline, the necessity of a Green Transition and how deeply our economic,...
Chapter 3: Canadian Public Opinion and the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Broadly, Canadians understand the climate crisis is real, and that the window of opportunity to address it is lessening Canadians clearly support an energy transition, even in oil and gas...
Chapter 2: Indigenous Knowledge and the Way Forward
[Click here for printable PDF] Highlights Drawing from his traditional Huron-Wendat teachings and knowledges, as well as his research experience in different North American regions, in this chapter Sioui provides a broad discussion of the value of...
Chapter 1: What is a ‘just transition’? Perspectives, Processes, Policy
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages (Draft) Perspectives Workers and unions have been the focal point of just transitions advocacy and actions, with a focus on the retraining, relocation and preferential hiring of workers. Broader perspectives...
Table of Contents
[Click here for printable PDF] Introduction Debora L. VanNijnatten Part 1: Setting the Context Chapter 1. What do we mean by a ‘just transition’? Tamara Krawchenko, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, tamarakrawchenko@uvic.ca Kara...
Project Overview
[Click here for printable PDF] Canada has reached an inflection point in its political, economic and social evolution as a nation – will its future be ‘green’ or ‘brown’? Since 2016, the Trudeau Liberal government has committed to ambitious climate and...