A REUTERS headline regarding the EU’s ‘Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism‘ provides a snapshot of what we should expect over the next few years in relation to sustainable development (SD) goals.
Since the early 1970s, SD has been pushed as an ideological no-brainer by the fanatical green lobby – a consensual and unquestioned ideal that we must all strive for and also suffer for if necessary (£4.5trillion estimated cost of Net Zero, anyone?)
The Carney government’s renewed commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions (NZE) by 2050, aided by the Alberta government, in the Canada-Alberta MOU could cost about $2.1 trillion in lost economic activity from business-as-usual (BAU) between 2025 and 2050 and lead to 351,000 lost jobs from BAU by 2050. These are among key insights based on my analysis of data drawn from a 2024 custom research project by Navius Research using its highly regarded gTech/IESD model.
Policy goals, such as Canada NZE 2050, need to be backed up with rigorous modeling and impact analysis. Unfortunately, the federal government does not appear to have provided sufficient updated information on Canada NZE 2050 to allow citizens to fully assess its economic and fiscal impact. I believe that the analysis presented here helps fill that critical void.
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So, as it turns out, oil and natural gas aren’t dead fossil fuels and the previous Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, which kept insisting they were, was dead wrong.
That blunder is costing the Canadian economy up to $25.6 billion a year and who knows how much more if Canadian politicians don’t get their act together.
The UN is shutting down criticism of the ongoing climate scam: At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in Brazil in November 2025, several states endorsed the UN’s “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, an initiative recognizing and trying to combat the rise in climate disinformation in media and politics.”
The UN declaration is professedly a pledge to “fight false information” about climate change.
Berlin’s horrendous four-day blackout, which plunged over 45,000 households in the city’s south-west into darkness, is finally over. Beginning last Saturday and lasting for four nights, the blackouts left homes, shops and care facilities without light, heating and communications access – just as a particularly nasty cold spell sent temperatures plummeting to minus-10 degrees Celsius. The far-left ‘Volcano Group’ (Vulkangruppe) has claimed responsibility for the blackout, which it reportedly achieved by setting fire to electricity cables connected to Berlin’s largest gas power plant.
Global temperature anomalies on both land and sea are dropping like a stone. Net Zero-obsessed mainstream media, science and politics do not do cooling. Confirmation bias that holds humans responsible for hockey-stick style global warming with all its risible ‘settled’ notions has gravely damaged genuine climate science. But the world is cooling rapidly and the silence from the mainstream is both laughable and disgraceful.
As Western elites preach net zero, Africa’s Dangote is building power the hard way—fueling growth, jobs, and independence with energy that actually works.
Political powers in the United Nations and European Union have spent decades lecturing Africa on climate “virtue.” Net-zero pledges, renewable targets, ESG frameworks, and more make up the ever-growing list of prescriptions for “healing the planet.”
Having already industrialized through the use of fossil fuels and enjoying full bellies, stable power grids, and unprecedented luxury, the so-called elite of the developed world present a “low-carbon” economy as morally superior. African nations are pressured to use “sustainable” energy sources—mostly wind and solar technologies—to effectively prevent the development of the Dark Continent’s rich deposits of coal, oil, and natural gas and engender dependence on foreign governments.
Recently published remarkable research analysing over 42 million global temperature recordings from nearly 1,000 stations has cast serious doubt on the claimed link between carbon dioxide emissions and rising temperatures. The huge statistical work collected data from before 1900 to 2024 and found an overall annual warming trend of 0.0054°C after adjusting for growing unnatural urban heat effects. What is truly revealing about this important analysis is that it shows an obvious disconnect between the rise in anthropogenic CO2 and the sharpest warming occurring in the early 20th century, when industrialisation was confined to relatively few countries.
2025 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, when 195 nations pledged to cut carbon emissions to slow the rise in global temperatures. Yet 10 years on, the political consensus on climate change has all but collapsed. Last year, the seemingly cast-iron conviction that climate change poses an existential threat to humanity – and that we urgently need to eradicate fossil fuels and carbon-intensive industries – came under challenge like never before.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
“We have too much regulation, not enough action,” Carney told CBC in a year-end interview commenting on Trudeau’s plan.
Although Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the consumer carbon tax in 2025, he is on a mission to make Canadians’ lives more expensive by jacking up industrial carbon taxes in 2026.
Carney wants Canadians to believe businesses can somehow be taxed without those costs being passed on to consumers.
We’re never going to get an apology from the Liberals for their failed single-use plastics ban — but on Dec. 20, we got the next best thing: an admission that it was all a costly mistake.
It’s buried in the government’s proposal to cancel the export ban on plastic straws, cutlery, grocery bags, ring carriers, stir sticks and other food packaging, which took effect earlier this month. A draft amendment to the federal plastics regulations to that effect is open for public comment until Feb. 28, and will likely become law soon afterward.
While Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in a year-end interview with CBC that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change plan was a $200-billion flop, the roots of that failure predate Trudeau.
They go back to then-prime minister Jean Chretien signing onto the United Nations Kyoto accord in 1998, committing Canada to economy-killing climate targets which – as top Chretien aide Eddie Goldenberg later acknowledged – the Liberals knew they couldn’t achieve.
After years of nonsense spouted by Canada’s Liberal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in year-end interviews with CBC that “Canada is not going to reach our 2030 and 2035 climate targets” under former PM Justin Trudeau’s climate change plan.
He said it had “too much regulation, not enough action” with a lot of talk “and then nothing happens,” thus admitting the failure of Trudeau’s taxpayer-financed, $200-billion-plus strategy.
The holidays are here again, a time of joy and festivity, of peace on earth and good will towards men.
But you’ll be forgiven if you’re not feeling as festive as in years past. After all, it’s not easy to be merry when you’re struggling to heat your home, pay your hydro bill, gas up your car, or put food on the table, let alone put presents under the tree.
