Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth

The Carney gvt’s states its climate approach “is based on driving investment, not on prohibitions.” If so, it’s a strategy doomed to fail. Prohibitions and mandates work. My latest column on why real climate action requires enforceable, near-term mandates. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...

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“Instead of making climate action voluntary, a government aligned with the emergency before us would make climate action and the energy transition mandatory, with robust and enforceable regulations, and not in some distant future, but now” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...

What if Carney said that a province proposing to expand oil production offset that carbon impact by reducing emissions from their electricity grid by moving their grid to clean renewables? Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...

Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...

Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o... We all know, fossil fuel industries banks, most corporations, will never change their business model unless we force them to…But having elected a banker as Prime Minister we should not hold our breath