Bill C-12 Flaws

What’s Wrong with Bill C-12

These short videos explain the problems with the original draft of Bill C-12 and why improving it was so important:

~ Why Bill C-12’s advisory body needs experts. 

~ Canada’s climate accountablity act needs a 2025 milestone year.

~ Where’s the accountability in Canada’s climate accountability act?

A More Detailed Look

~ Overview: The Problems with Bill C-12 (PDF)

~ The Consequences of Failing to Meet a Target by a Milestone Year (PDF)

~ Advisory Body:

• Selection, Composition and Independence of the Advisory Body (PDF)
  
• Advisory Body and the Minister: Its Role with Respect to Targets and Plans (PDF)
  

Climate Accountability Legislation

~ Proposed Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act (Bill C-12)

~ UK: Climate Change Act, 2008

~ New Zealand: Climate Change Response Act, 2002, as amended, 2019

~ BC: Climate Change Accountability Act, 2007

Reports

~ LSE Grantham Research Institute:

• 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act (full report)  March 30, 2018
  
• 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act (summary policy brief)  April 18, 2018