The inescapable low-carbon energy switch

Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes an opinion piece in La Presse + about the recent report by the research group, Sustainable Canada Dialogue , titled "Re-Energizing Canada: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future", of which Matthews is a principal author. Matthews reflects on what he views as a major contradiction between Canada's stated ambition to lower greenhouse gas emissions and its resolve to extract and export more fossil fuels. He concludes that the stated intention of Donald Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement affords Canada a real opportunity to take a leading role in the fight against global warming.