This document outlines the urgent need for Canada to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2040 to help limit global warming to 2°C. It provides various scenarios showing how annual reductions in CO2 emissions of between 5-50% of 2015 levels would impact the year by which zero emissions could be achieved and the total emissions released before reaching zero. It advocates for transitioning to renewable energy across electricity, transportation, buildings, and industry while winding down fossil fuel production and subsidies. The document argues this transition could create jobs and presents an optimistic view of humanity's ability to transition to a sustainable future powered by renewable energy like solar.
25. 2°C
“We need a miracle”
International
negotiations
chief
Christiana
Figueres
26. “The idea of a 2°C
target is largely out of
the window.”
Former UK
government
advisor Professor
Sir Robert Watson
27. “There is no longer a non-radical option. If
developed economies are to play an equitable role
in holding warming to 2°C with 66% probability it
would require at least a 40% reduction by 2018,
70% reduction by 2024 and 90% by 2030.
This would require “in effect a Marshall plan for
energy supply.”
Kevin Anderson
Deputy Director,
Tyndall Centre for
Climate Research
51. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
52. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
53. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
54. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
55. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
56. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
57. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
58. Annual
reduction in
CO2
emissions
% of
Canada’s
2015
emissions
Year by when
zero
emissions is
achieved
Mt of CO2
released
before before
reaching
zero
Achieved
emissions
reduction
below the
2015 level
Year by when
6,000 Mt
carbon budget
is exhausted
5 Mt 1 2113 24,715 13% 2028
10 Mt 2 2064 12,420 28% 2029
15 Mt 3 2049 8,545 63% 2030
20 Mt 4 2041 6,500 72% 2033
25 Mt 5 2035 5,250 100% n/a
33 Mt 6.6 2030 3,995 100% n/a
50 Mt 10 2025 2,750 100% n/a
CANADA’S CHOICES
79. ELECTRICITY
A Federal Clean Energy Plan
that helps the provinces to close down all coal-fired power
plants by 2025 and all gas-fired power plants by 2040, and…
80. ELECTRICITY
A Federal Clean Energy Plan
to ramp up conservation, renewables and power storage to
take their place, including geothermal for base-load power.
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82.
83.
84. More solar energy reaches Earth in an hour
than humans use in a year.
103. BUILDINGS
Zero emissions from all new buildings starting in 2020.
Zero emissions from existing buildings by 2040 through a
nationwide program to retrofit every building for greater
energy saving and renewable energy for heat.
104. INDUSTRY
A major drive to help companies improve their
energy efficiency, and replace the use of coal and
gas with biomass or hydrogen.
105. ALBERTA’S OIL SANDS
Factor zero by 2040 into all NEB decisions.
Freeze production at current level.
Deny licenses for all new pipelines.
Close down the last oil sands operation by 2040.
Firm up requirements for boreal forest restoration.
106. THE ECONOMY (1)
Eliminate all subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels.
Divest all public funds from fossil fuels.
Put an annually increasing price on carbon.
Invest the resulting funds in climate solutions.
Support the green economy with tax incentives.
107. THE ECONOMY (2)
Create new jobs by applying entrepreneurial skill to R&D,
innovation, business start-up, cooperative economic
development and other initiatives. Bring in public banking,
basic income, work-sharing, employee share ownership,
profit-sharing, tax reform, a financial transactions tax,
and closure of the world’s tax havens.
108. The transition from a capitalist economy
to a green, entrepreneurial cooperative economy
could be one of the defining achievements
of the 21st century.
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114. Canada, population 35 million
500
6.6 73,000 26,000
Canada-wide
1.75
A very approximate sense of Canada’s gain
blog.floridaenergycenter.org
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116.
117. 10,000 lives could be saved and 76,600 job opportunities
created if people in major European cities cycled
as much as they do in Copenhagen.
World Health Organization, 2014
118. 655,000 people work in cycling in the EU, most in cycle
tourism. If cycling’s modal share were doubled, more
than 400,000 new jobs could be created.
Cycling has a higher employment intensity per million of
turnover than other transport sectors.
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122. The power
of our vision
must be stronger than
the power
of our fears
123. Think of the Age of Fossil Fuels as the
LAUNCH RAMP
for the Solar Age
30,000 years
Firewood
300 years
Fossil Fuels
Science
Engineering
Enlightenment
Two billion years
Solar Energy
124. A billion years
The Sun will not begin to turn
into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.
is 100,000 periods of 10,000 years
125. A billion years
The Sun will not begin to turn
into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.
and with every passing year,
our solar technology will improve
and fall in price.