{"id":56766,"date":"2021-02-13T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56766"},"modified":"2021-02-13T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:39:49","slug":"5-ways-norway-leads-and-canada-lags-on-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56766","title":{"rendered":"5 ways Norway leads and Canada lags on climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5 ways Norway leads and Canada lags on climate action<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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As major oil and gas producers and exporters, Norway and Canada\u00a0share<\/a> a particular responsibility for confronting the planet\u2019s existential climate threat. However, their different political, economic and cultural features have resulted in major differences in their climate policy track records.<\/p>\n

Overall, Norway is a leader on climate change performance and Canada is a laggard. The 2021\u00a0Climate Change Performance Index<\/a>\u00a0ranks 61 countries on their progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, renewable energies and climate policy. Norway ranked eighth overall, while Canada was near the bottom in 58th place.<\/p>\n

Both countries face epic challenges in weaning themselves from petroleum dependence \u2014 and putting an end to exporting carbon emissions. Canada is a long way from winding down the oil and gas industry and implementing a green and inclusive recovery.<\/p>\n

One of the advantages Norway holds is the high degree of equality and inclusivity in the policy process, which translates into a healthier democracy than Canada\u2019s. This is something Canada can learn from and improve upon.<\/p>\n

Canada produces\u00a04.7 million barrels<\/a>\u00a0of oil per day \u2014 80 per cent of it from Alberta \u2014 and\u00a0exports<\/a>\u00a079 per cent to the United States. The carbon emissions from the consumption of those\u00a0fossil fuel exports<\/a> are almost four times greater than the emissions produced in their extraction and processing. These emissions aren\u2019t attributed to Canada, even though it\u2019s responsible for making them available.<\/p>\n

Norway produces\u00a01.7 million barrels of oil daily<\/a>\u00a0and, since the country runs mainly on hydroelectricity,\u00a0exports almost all of it<\/a>, largely to Western Europe. Norway\u00a0exports<\/a>\u00a010 times more emissions than it produces domestically.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s exit ramp from oil dependence is bumpy. Despite some contradictory climate actions, Norway\u2019s progress exceeds that of virtually all petrostates, with Canada trailing behind.<\/p>\n

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5 ways Norway leads and Canada lags on climate action As major oil and gas producers and exporters, Norway and Canada\u00a0share a particular responsibility for confronting the planet\u2019s existential climate threat. However, their different political, economic and cultural features have resulted in major differences in their climate policy track records. Overall, Norway is a leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30939,103,27351,141,1241,8487],"class_list":["post-56766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-bruce-campbell","tag-canada","tag-clean-energy-2","tag-climate-change","tag-norway","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56767,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56766\/revisions\/56767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}