Perception gap plagues Canada’s carbon price. Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are down, but so is public support for its carbon pricing policy. Let’s explore why. (Jan 2024)
Perception gap plagues Canada’s carbon price. Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are down, but so is public support for its carbon pricing policy. Let’s explore why. (Jan 2024)
Canada's carbon pollution is down, but so is public support for its carbon pricing policy. CCL Research Coordinator Rick Knight explores why.
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That graph was made to make the reduction look more impressive than it actually is by starting the Y axis at 12.
They also seem to completely ignore the pandemic when it comes to explaining the sudden decline of emissions in 2020 which obviously had a dramatic effect. Remember that emissions went down worldwide during that time.
And then they make no mention of inflation when they talk about the growth of the GDP after the beginning of the pandemic, suggesting that somehow the tax caused the increase in GDP.
I'm all for measures to reduce emissions but this article is purposefully misleading and counterproductive to the effort.
With something like carbon emissions, it’s going to be very difficult to control for every other variable, however, the difference from peak to 2022 is an over 12% decline. If that rate stays steady enough, that’s a huge victory overall.
I'd be interested to see where 2023 is. It was the first year which seemed like there were no pandemic restrictions, including the "back-to-office" rush which happened mid-2023.
For sure. I’m not sure what the turn time is on compiling that data, but it’d be interesting to see.
Honestly, any kind of double digit reduction from peak seems like it would be worth considering iterating elsewhere in the world.
The Y-scale got me. 😅