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Environment committee To me, that kind of global consensus around emissions reduction is going to come from the bottom up—
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee I think that's bang on: You recognize the fact that it's not any one year's emissions that are causing the problem. It's the cumulative emissions over time that are causing the problem. We want an approach that targets our cumulative emissions over time, which means sending a lon
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee So your question is about economic growth and carbon pricing.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee Right. My view is that carbon pricing is pretty much a wash for the economy overall. It's not going to make us a lot bigger and it's not going to make us a lot smaller. I think it will increase the growth in cleaner sectors in the economy and reduce it in less clean sectors of th
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee I don't think there's a lot of evidence that it's going to increase the total amount of innovation activity in the economy, but it will redirect it towards clean activities. It won't cause a growth in the number of scientists or a growth in the number of patents, but it will redi
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee [Inaudible—Editor] electricity directly.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee A few oil-exporting Middle Eastern countries are higher than us, but we're among the leaders.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee We produce just under 2% of the world's emissions.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee I'm not sure I can remember them all. China's about 26....
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee No, it's a little lower than that. China's ahead of—
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee We're less than 2%.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee I don't think we can say precisely, but I would have said, in the ballpark—
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee The evidence that we've talked about said that the $30 per tonne price in British Columbia reduced emissions by between 5% and 15%.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee It was introduced in 2008.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers
Environment committee When it hit $30, it was 2012.
January 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Nicholas Rivers