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Aaron Cosbey

@aaroncosbey.bsky.social
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climate and energy policy, trade and investment policy, and all the stuff in between if i can't dance, i don't want to be part of your revolution

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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IISD Economies @economies.iisd.org · 24/11/2025
💡 Need a refresher on the ins and outs of Border Carbon Adjustments #BCAs? Learn from our lead expert, @aaroncosbey.bsky.social why effective design and international cooperation are essential to their success. 📽️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqK... [2/2]
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My latest: What if many countries adopt border carbon adjustment? How to prevent the nightmare scenario of many different requirements for measurement, reporting and verification of GHG emissions - a burden that would fall most heavily on SME exporters and those from developing countries?
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IISD Economies @economies.iisd.org · 20/10/2025
(1/8) 🌍 An industrial policy renaissance Governments are using #subsidies and other measures to help domestic industries play a role in the green transition—while strengthening economic competitiveness. A new IISD report explores how this is reshaping trade and investment .👇
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Nameless German firms to Hodgson: We'd be "interested" in Canadian LNG. I'm sure. Every importer wants a surplus of exporters. That doesn't mean they'd commit to any long-term deals. And it doesn't mean that they've thought through the business case from a Canadian perspective. bit.ly/3Kvro96
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Natural resources minister presses case for Canadian LNG exports to Europe | CBC News
At a news conference wrapping up a trip to Berlin, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said German companies have told him they are interested in Canadian liquefied natural gas, and that his govern...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
At this point you expect more outrageous stuff every day. But this is a whole new level of outrageous.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Republican lawmakers' smokescreen: "The smoke you're choking on definitely has nothing to do with climate change. The real culprit is criminally negligent foreign forest managers." bit.ly/45tXeKj
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More Republican lawmakers demand legal action over Canadian wildfire smoke
The Republican lawmakers called for an investigation of Canada's wildfire management practices and for potential remedies under international law, saying Canada must face "real consequences."
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Hey fellow Canadians. Cost of living more important to you than addressing climate change? Here's a 10-year graph of my home insurance costs, following on recent years of monstrously costly floods, wildfires, storms. Just 1 of so many ways in which we're paying for *not* addressing climate change.
my rising home insurance cost in Canada, in large part due to climate-change-fueled floods, wildfires, storms in recent years
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
On her dream of doubling Alberta's oil production, as on most things, Danielle Smith is in complete alignment with Alberta's separatists. Here's why they're both going to be proven badly wrong. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/10/o...
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Alberta will never double its oil production
Both Danielle Smith and the separatists she keeps enabling want to see Alberta double its oil production. Spoiler: It won't be Mark Carney or the Liberal government that ends up stopping them.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Six US Congressmen complain to Canada’s Ambassador that Canadian wildfires are wrecking their constituents’ summer holidays, ask us to do better at forest management and preventing arson. How about this for a deal? (1/2) bit.ly/3TArY6K
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Trump allies fume Canadian smoke is ruining summer – and offer misinfo as the solution
Smoke from Canadian wildfires that have forced about a quarter of a million Canadians to evacuate since 2023 are preventing Americans in Trump-voting districts from "spend[ing] time outdoors recreatin...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Your years of waiting and yearning are over! 😁 Deep-detailed guidance on best practice in border carbon adjustment -- the product of dialogues that brought together over 20 global experts from a wide range of backgrounds.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Breaking: European Commission has proposed that CBAM-covered producers of steel, aluminum, cement & fertilizers will be relieved of the EU ETS carbon price for exports. Some thoughts. (1/4) bit.ly/4knZmZl
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The economics version of "It doesn't count if it's not on Strava"
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This isn't surprising, in that the emissions cap has for a while seemed an obvious sacrificial lamb. But if Ottawa sees it as potentially a straight-up trade-off for Pathways (oil-sands carbon capture) finally happening, I think it's missing a step. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Insiders say Mark Carney could compromise on emissions cap
Once hailed under prime minister Justin Trudeau's leadership as a marquee plank of Canada's climate action under the Liberal government, the proposed emissions cap is also politically contentious, wit...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thoughtful coverage of our new report calling for a new Canadian industrial strategy. We lay out specific recommendations, based on the lessons of successful Canadian and international industrial policies. carboncompetitiveness.ca/wp-content/u...
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 25/05/2025
Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...
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‘More convenient’: why China’s travellers are ditching planes for bullet trains
More passengers on busy Beijing-Shanghai route are choosing high-speed rail, which offers flexibility, comfort and stable internet access.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“Climeworks’ [direct air capture] energy needs: … It would take up to 72 terawatts to fully offset Iceland's carbon footprint each year … equivalent to almost four times Iceland's electricity production.” Something very wrong with this equation. bit.ly/4drzWbA
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Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Have you ever wondered what things we’re doing today will be shocking to folks 20 years from now? The “kids dancing in DDT fog” test? In my top 10: cooking by burning fossil gas inside our homes. bit.ly/4kmHZbG
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Gas stoves increase cancer risk, especially for kids, new study finds
The appliances emit benzene, a potent carcinogen. Exposure varies depending on ventilation and other factors, but there’s no safe level.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Trump to scrap billions in DoE support for industrial decarbonization. Terrible for climate progress, jobs, investment. But also: condemns US industry to be dirty & uncompetitive in the global green markets of the future. Threatens the manufacturing base that GOP claims to cherish. bit.ly/452NbNv
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‘It’s bleak’: Trump prepares to gut investments to clean up heavy…
The Industrial Demonstrations Program would create thousands of jobs while helping modernize U.S. industries like steelmaking. It’s on Trump’s chopping…
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) deserves all the shade that gets thrown at it. But it also can be used to protect renewable energy investments like Equinor's. Expect the Trump admin to get slapped with billions in claims for arbitrarily shutting down approved projects. bit.ly/4lRBDCZ
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Equinor considers suing Trump administration over halted US windfarm
Norway’s state energy company’s $2.5bn project off coast of New York was almost a third finished
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"On Friday, the WFP said it had distributed the last of its stocks to the approximately 50 kitchens where hundreds of thousands of people line up daily to take food back to their families." US cuts to WFP -> 40% drop in its budget & 60m people at risk worldwide www.ft.com/content/c947...
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UN agency runs out of food in Gaza as Israel’s siege takes devastating toll
Extreme hunger intensifies as Israeli politicians rebuff calls to allow supplies into shattered enclave
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Facebook consistently offers up misinformation/scamming content, is unwilling/unable to address the problem. Do we just throw up our hands? Or do we mandate that they (and any others) will be shut down in Canada if they don’t meet reasonable standards? #OnlineHarmsAct bit.ly/3YQWgFh
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Scam political ads on Facebook take a dark turn as Canada's election looms - The Logic
The bogus ads show politicians with black eyes and make claims of major scandals for Pierre Poilievre and Doug Ford.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Why it makes no sense to subsidize oil production. As demand for oil begins secular decline, it will be increasingly difficult for OPEC+ to assert discipline. Low prices, low profits/royalties, declining jobs, amplified cyclical swings. Oil is going into a messy and painful sunset. bit.ly/3RvFckj
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Kazakhstan’s OPEC+ defiance could push Saudi into a painful price war
Kazakhstan's public defiance of the OPEC+ oil production alliance could signal its exit from the group and push Saudi Arabia into a painful price war at a precarious moment.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Conservative election platform now released, contains the zombie climate pledge that refuses to die: Canada should use Paris Agreement Article 6 to get credit for clean LNG exports. I can play the resurrection game too. Here's my 2024 piece debunking that proposal. bit.ly/40By0Zy
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Credit Check
Debunking the myth that Canada can get credit under Paris Agreement Article 6 for its clean energy liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@economist.com: Spanish businesses booming, standing out from rest of EU. Why? First big factor: cheap electricity. Massive build out of renewables in the grid, now @ 65% of generation = a 20% drop in prices. So: Renewables at high levels are feasible, and are an economic enabler. bit.ly/3GiaUPw
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Spanish business thrives while bigger European economies stall
Cheap energy and high immigration are the motors of success
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is such a great group! Stand by for our guidance on border carbon adjustment, coming later this spring/summer.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Trump considers ignoring ongoing negotiations on deep sea mining code for international waters, greenlighting environmentally destructive US operators. In other news: Trump finalizing plans to commission American privateers on open seas, to improve US trade balance. bit.ly/4iVrZgA
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Exclusive: White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say
Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals on the ocean's floor.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Even in the worst bad news cycle there are small comforts. bit.ly/3FNPucO
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Hooters files for bankruptcy | CNN Business
Hooters — the restaurant chain first known for its orange-clad, all-female wait staff and then its chicken wings — filed for bankruptcy, the company announced Monday. But the decades-old brand said i...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Canada has axed its carbon tax on fuels. May have been politically necessary, but what does it mean for our climate targets, the incentives for uptake of EVs, heat pumps, renewable energy? The incomparable @bsaxifrage.bsky.social breaks it down as only he can. Spoiler: it's not good. bit.ly/4chsqiP
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Canada axed the tax and made pollution cheap again
Chopping $20 billion off the price of climate-polluting fuels means more pollution and fewer reasons to buy climate solutions. Here's a deep, chart-packed, dive into what just happened.
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 26/03/2025
Canada's consumer carbon tax is dead. Now what? Writing in Canada's @nationalobserver.com, @aaroncosbey.bsky.social unpacks options to replace the levy and help achieve the country's climate targets. But it won't be easy, he warns. Read ▶️ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/25/o...
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 20/03/2025
Canada's new PM Mark Carney has scrapped carbon pricing for consumers. Can the industrial carbon tax bridge the gap? IISD expert @aaroncosbey.bsky.social speaks to CBC Radio about what policy levers could be pulled next. 📻👂 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
To paraphrase Zelensky, 'I don't need reposts, I need bullets'. Please join me in donating to Ukraine. Please give any amount that you can. There are multiple options for which specific cause to support at the link below. war.ukraine.ua/donate/
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Such excellent research/analysis from @jimbostanford.bsky.social at the Centre for Future Work, on the true roots of the affordability crisis in Canada: 👉Primarily, dependence on fossil fuels for industry, electricity, heat, and transport. Recommendations almost write themselves. bit.ly/3FAfo3w
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Had a great chat with Kristin Hayes on the @rff.org podcast Resources Radio, on the subject of Canadian climate policy, and carbon pricing in particular, in this moment of dynamic political change. bit.ly/42bYuRE
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The End of Canada’s Carbon Price?, with Aaron Cosbey
Aaron Cosbey discusses possible directions for climate policy in Canada as the country gears up to elect a new government.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Remember how the nuke nuts claimed for years and years that when Germany shut down its nuclear fleet (the last unit retired in 2023), they would rebound to coal and gas? It didn't happen. (Source: www.energy-charts.info/charts/energ...)
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 12/03/2025
🇨🇦 oil & gas companies plan to spend more than $600bn expanding #fossilfuels over the next decade. IISD's @aaroncosbey.bsky.social warns "the more you expand that sector the more you set it up for a sector in distress when demand goes sour.” @woodsideful.bsky.social | @nationalobserver.com
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Oil and gas companies plan to spend billions to boost future fossil fuel supply
Over the next decade, just over 180 oil and gas companies in Canada plan to collectively spend more than $600 billion developing new oil and gas fields, according to data reviewed by Canada’s National...
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#RestoreDemocracyNow
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I keep hearing grudging admiration for the speed and effectiveness of Trump/Musk's evisceration of democracy in the US, even among those who are horrified. Remember: it is 10 times easier to break things than to build things.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So China is eating US manufacturing’s lunch, and the answer is to increase costs by tearing up established supply chain relationships with Canada, Mexico and other allies? Helluva plan.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Failing to fall in line: The little blue dot in the upper right is a La Niña January, which should be cooler like all the other little blue dots.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Because why should the richest country in the world want to help the poorest countries in the world? (The irony is that so much US aid was accused of being self-interested) bit.ly/411uaZD
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Trump, Musk move to shut down USAID, staff blocked from headquarters - National | Globalnews.ca
Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We are now over 20,000 strong. I need every proud and determined Canadian to reach out to their family, friends, colleagues to sign the pledge for Canada. Each one reach one. Each one teach one. Donald will not break us. True. North. Strong. Free #strongasfuck actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
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Sign the Pledge for Canada
This petition is intended as an invitation to Canadians to reflect on the current challenges Canada faces and what we can all do to respond to the risks and to contribute to building a more resilient ...
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Cory Doctorow: Canada shouldn't respond to Trump tariffs with retaliatory tariffs. Should renege on the USMCA obligation against breaking digital locks. This provision makes massive profits for US tech oligarchs, and breaching it actually benefits Canadians (unlike tariffs). bit.ly/40ZypVz
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Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs
It should hit the USA where it hurts, instead.
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One of those "what am I doing on this panel?" occasions: Excellent high-level meeting on the future of CBAM, Feb 12, organized by the French Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty. Registration link at: evenium.events/evenement-ma...
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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We propose a ‘climate contribution’ to complement the EU ETS. It would be levied on carbon-intensive basic materials like steel & cement. With @karstenneuhoff.bsky.social, @misatosato1.bsky.social, @harrovanasselt.bsky.social, @jrichstein.bsky.social & many others. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Industrial decarbonisation in a fragmented world: an effective carbon price with a ‘climate contribution’ - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
This report proposes a ‘climate contribution’ as a practical, WTO-compliant solution to address carbon leakage risk, ensure investment stability, and support industrial decarbonisation in the face of ...
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If you think it’s perfectly ordinary for Russia to launch ballistic missiles at civilian targets in the heart of Kyiv, but regard Ukraine targeting individual war criminals in Moscow as a dangerous escalation, you might want to give your head a wobble
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Dale Beugin @dalebeugin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here's @enveco.bsky.social + CBAM expert @aaroncosbey.bsky.social on border carbon adjustments www.cbc.ca/news/science.... "Canadian products might get disadvantaged if there's no more regulation to decarbonize or to encourage companies to decarbonize"
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Can tariffs be good for the planet? | CBC News
Tariffs are a hot topic these days. But could they help cool the planet? Many countries are discussing carbon tariffs or carbon border adjustments as a way to protect their competitiveness while fight...
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 18/12/2024
Why are Border Carbon Adjustments a 🔥 topic in global trade? @aaroncosbey.bsky.social unpacks 🔑 questions and implications of these new policy tools. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqK...
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Understanding Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs)
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Antoine Bonnet @antoinebonnet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Glad to have worked on this piece with the one and only @aaroncosbey.bsky.social !
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