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Nov 30, 2024 | 
tnc.news | Robert Lyman
Source: YT - Pierre Poilievre “Axe the Tax!” has become a rallying cry in Canadian politics, and while the slogan is a potent partisan tool for federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, it does not constitute a comprehensive climate-change platform or functional environmental policy. As the Conservatives prepare to take on the responsibility of governing, they must articulate a climate strategy—and it should be one that balances economic growth with practical environmental measures.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Robert Lyman
COP 29, the 29th “Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change,” concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday. After many of the 50,000 attendees (fewer than last year) and various hangers-on had already left, tired negotiators produced an agreement on the main agenda item, the setting of a new “collective quantified goal on climate finance” (CQGCF).
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | Robert Alonzo |George Domat |Robert Lyman |Hannah Hoganson
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
todayville.com | Robert Lyman
The Justin Trudeau government has made reducing greenhouse gas emissions the pre-eminent goal of public policy. In 2021 it passed the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, binding present and future governments to a process intended to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 and to set incremental five-year emission reduction targets and plans towards that end.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
c2cjournal.ca | Robert Lyman
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
c2cjournal.ca | Robert Lyman
The Justin Trudeau government has made reducing greenhouse gas emissions the pre-eminent goal of public policy. In 2021 it passed the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, binding present and future governments to a process intended to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 and to set incremental five-year emission reduction targets and plans towards that end.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Robert Lyman
Jack Bowsher has set out in this book – his first – to reprise the role of armour in the Burma campaign. He has achieved much more, however, as this excellent book is an accessible study of the campaign as a whole. It has much to recommend it.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Bethany Hall |Robert Lyman
Even the most sketchily educated Briton today will nevertheless recognise in the murky depths of their consciousness the name of that great British general of World War Two, Montgomery of Alamein. To an older generation perhaps another name resonates equally and perhaps more strongly, the name of a man Montgomery airily dismissed as a mere ‘sepoy general’, and yet someone whose military legacy has arguably outlasted even that of the great ‘Monty’ himself.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Robert Lyman
Supremacy at SeaThe Second World War can be seen as a succession of phases, or campaign events, each of which in terms of timeline and effect had its own impact on the course and outcome of the war. The two big turning points in the Second World War both occurred in 1941. The first was Hitler’s turn to the east, with the start of Operation Barbarossa on Sunday 22 June.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Robert Lyman
The world is not on pace to meet emissions targets. Governments should stop pretending otherwisePublished Jul 10, 2024 • Last updated 13 minutes ago • 3 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The world simply is not “decarbonizing,” writes energy economist Robert Lyman. Photo by Getty ImagesArticle contentBy Robert Lyman We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
