Episode 5: Year-End Special 2020

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IN THIS EPISODE:

1. 2020 Green Economy News Mash-up [min. 1:14]
A montage of this year’s green economy news stories, with credit to news clips from CBC News, Global News, CBC Power & Politics, CTV News, BNN-Bloomberg, BBC News, Fox News, CNBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera.
 

2. Panel: The Biggest Green Economy News Stories of 2020 [min. 3:42]
Four of Canada’s top journalists and media commentators share their thoughts on the year’s most important stories for the green economy.

• Heather Scoffield, Toronto Star
• Adam Radwanski, The Globe and Mail
• Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press
• Shawn McCarthy, Freelance

A selection of the year’s most important journalism and commentating on the green economy:

• Scoffield: “We know what it will take to get to net-zero carbon emissions. So why isn’t Canada doing it?”
• Radwanski: “Should Canada engineer a ‘green’ recovery? It’s complicated”
• Rabson: “Feds pulled between bailing out oil and gas and moving to cleaner energy”
• McCarthy: “Green recovery fever spreads around the globe”
• Scoffield: “There could be a green lining to COVID-19’s attack on Canada’s oil and gas sector”
• Radwanski: “Why carbon tariffs could be coming to Canada soon”
• Rabson: “Task force crosses partisan lines to call for $55 billion for climate, clean energy”
• McCarthy: “Merging movements — pursuing a just and green future should be done together”
• Scoffield: “Canada gambles with electric car investment in Oakville with Ford”
• Radwanski: “Now that EVs will be made in Canada, will government force them to be sold here?
• Rabson: “Canada's carbon tax conundrum continues as Supreme Court reserves judgment in cases”
• McCarthy: “To pay for the green recovery, we’ll need to leverage public investment”

Have feedback on this episode? Ideas for future episodes? 

• Send an email to host & producer Eric Campbell
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Episode 5 includes music and clips from Eric Campbell, Audio Jungle, Zapsplat, CBC News, Global News, CBC Power & Politics, CTV News, BNN-Bloomberg, BBC News, Fox News, CNBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera.

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