C.D. Howe Institute recently gathered experts in major sectors Trudeau is targeting to lower Canada\u0027s industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
The four sectors — oil and gas, transportation, buildings and electricity — account for more than 70% of Canada’s 2020 emissions, the last year for which government data are available.
Rather it is “a plan to have a plan … The cross-sector scope and economy-wide scale of the plan makes it unprecedented in modern Canadian history. No speaker or participant unreservedly found the plan’s aspirations easily achievable.” They said Trudeau’s target, less than eight years away, is unrealistic because of the time it takes for governments to approve new infrastructure projects needed to lower emissions — some relying on technologies that haven’t been invented.
One participant in the building sector said that in order to hit Trudeau’s 2030 emission target, 130,000 buildings per year would have to be retrofitted in Toronto alone.
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