COP29: Canada needs to start a real conversation about international carbon markets

By Mark Purdon, Professor, École des sciences de la gestion & Holder, Chair in Decarbonization, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

In a world coping with climate setbacks and Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States, the growing prominence of international carbon markets may just be the good news we have been looking for. Canada should take notice.

More than a decade after the collapse of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012, the most recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) global Conference of the Parties (COP29) meeting appears to have already…

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