The People need to know Cost Benefits before Climate Policies

80 views · Published 23 December 2015 · 1:13 · Indexed 14 October 2026

Channel: Friends of Science · 2015 · Science & Technology

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This fall, Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments rushed into climate policy-making prior to the Paris COP21 talks - but there was not adequate time to do a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed mitigations. Robert Lyman, an energy economist of some 37 years, has done the math and shows these targets would destroy the Canadian economy. The people need a full accounting of cost-benefits before any implementation.

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