{"id":45138,"date":"2020-12-11T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=45138"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:30:24","slug":"greenpeace-canada-reaction-to-the-federal-climate-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/45138\/greenpeace-canada-reaction-to-the-federal-climate-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Canada reaction to the federal climate plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/142683d4-screen-shot-2020-12-11-at-1.18.44-pm.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greenpeace Canada reaction to the federal climate plan<\/h4>\n\n<p><strong>OTTAWA <\/strong>\u2014 <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>In reaction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2020\/12\/a-healthy-environment-and-a-healthy-economy.html\">Climate plan<\/a> released today by the federal government, Keith Stewart Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada, said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe proposed increase in the carbon price is a bold move to embed the polluter-pay principle in Canada\u2019s climate plan, as putting a price on pollution is an important piece of the climate solution along with strong regulations and clean energy investments. Working with allies like Europe and the U.S. to establish innovative ways to ensure this can\u2019t be undercut by companies shifting profits or operations to countries lacking strong climate policies can help ensure that big polluters also pay their fair share.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is a serious and well-thought out plan to achieve our 30 per cent reduction target, but we will need to do much more to fully decarbonize our economy, which is what climate science tells us is the way to protect our economy and ecosystems. Canada can\u2019t keep pretending that we can solve the climate crisis while expanding oil and gas production and building new pipelines. We still need the plan showing us how the federal government will lead the necessary and inevitable transition from fossil fuels to renewables, while creating green jobs and ensuring fair treatment for the workers and communities currently dependent on oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ENDS<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Laura Bergamo, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:laura.bergamo@greenpeace.org\">laura.bergamo@greenpeace.org<\/a> ; +1 438 928-5237<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014  In reaction to the Climate plan released today by the federal government, Keith Stewart Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada, said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":45139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"Greenpeace Canada reaction to the federal climate plan","p4_og_description":"<p><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">OTTAWA <\/strong>\u2014 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In reaction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2020\/12\/a-healthy-environment-and-a-healthy-economy.html\">Climate plan<\/a> released today by the federal government, Keith Stewart Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada, said:<\/p>","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/142683d4-screen-shot-2020-12-11-at-1.18.44-pm.png","p4_og_image_id":"45139","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[23,25,32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-45138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-live-sustainably","category-nature","tag-climate","tag-energysolutions","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45141,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45138\/revisions\/45141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45138"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=45138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}