This week:'2 lost decades': Experts on the last 20 years of Canadian climate policyVisualizing the carbon emissions reductions during COVID-19A year-end interview with Canada's climate minister, Jonathan Wilkinson'2 lost decades': Experts weigh in on the last 20 years of Canadian climate policy(Todd Korol/Reuters)While 2020 has felt long, for environmental activists in Canada, the wait for a federal climate change strategy has felt much longer. Yet Alan MacEachern, a climate change historian and professor of history at Western University in London, Ont., says that it has taken too long for the federal government to come up with the necessary ambition to tackle climate change. "The country had 10 years, sliced right through the middle of this 20-year block, in which the federal government was never committed to mitigating climate change, was maybe never sure if climate change was real," MacEachern said. MacEachern said Canadians haven't treated climate change with the urgency it deserves — and that includes the Trudeau government. A year-end interview with Canada's climate minister(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)Earlier this year, there was concern the climate agenda would be sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: CBC News December 17, 2020 19:18 UTC