Fwd: [cacor-climate] RE: Draft 2026–2029 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy
Art Hunter
This “Draft 2026–2029 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy” is a lot of gobbledy-gook.
It is interesting and revealing to scan through their document (see at https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/corporate/transparency/consultations/share-your-throughts-draft-2026-2029-federal-sustainable-development-strategy/draft-strategy.html?utm_source=The+Hill+Times&utm_campaign=d8de7b9ad9-Politics-This-Morning&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_251d35861a-d8de7b9ad9-94053593&mc_cid=d8de7b9ad9&mc_eid=015691f29c), just to see what commitments they do have.
You will go a long way in before you see words like ‘climate change’. There is NOTHING, absolutely nothing in the document about either ‘renewable energy’ or a ‘trans-national electric grid’, not even under ‘Goal 3.1: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions’.
Under “Goal 3.1: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions”, their only action is “working with partners to invest in clean technologies such as carbon capture, material efficiency, and renewable and non-emitting energy.”
There is a section entitled ‘Goal 3.2: Support climate adaptation’, and the first item under it is “3.2.1: 60% of households factor climate change into their decision making.” What does government plan to do?
THAT’S IT! Government has no plans to attempt mitigation, only ‘adaptation’, just to load it onto the population, no plans to really support ‘renewable energy’ or a ‘trans-national electric grid’.
How can they be so blind? They seem to have taken a page from Trump’s plans. Their “sustainable development strategy” is simply an avoidance scheme – don’t talk about climate change, don’t attempt to do anything concrete, nature will look after it, or something!
Geoff Strong
From: Richard van der Jagt <rvdj...@gmail.com>
Sent: January 14, 2026 7:06 AM
To: CACOR Climate <cacor-...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: just published in the HT
Feds release a new draft sustainable development strategy
Environment and Climate Change Canada opened public consultations for its 2026-2029 Draft Sustainable Development Strategy on Monday.
The 74-page document has a little bit of everything to tackle a range of Canada’s challenges—from reducing poverty to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Its objectives are broken down into three main categories: “building an inclusive and resilient society,” “driving clean growth,” and “protecting our environment and well-being.”
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Julie Dabrusin. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The document serves as an overall framework for federal departments that are tasked with implementing its goals through their own departmental sustainable development strategies.
Specific targets are laid out for each of the goals, like reducing poverty by 50 per cent of the 2015 level by 2030, and achieving reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 45 per cent to 50 per cent from the 2005 level by 2035. The details can be read here.
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Time to Evaluate the 2026-29 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy just released by The Honourable Julie Dabrusin, P.C., M.P., Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, but on the basis of the UN Declaration of SIX Ethical Principles in relation to Climate Change. Those principles, to which all parties agreed in 2017, are:
1) Prevention of harm, to better anticipate the consequences of climate change and implement responsible and effective policies.
2) Precautionary approach concerning the non-postponement of measures to prevent or mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change.
3) Equity and justice, to respond to climate change in a way that benefits all, in a spirit of justice and equity.
4) Sustainable development, to adopt sustainable paths for development that make it possible to preserve our ecosystems.
5) Solidarity, to support, individually and collectively, the people and groups most vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters.
6) Using scientific knowledge and integrity in decision-making–to strengthen the interface between science and policy to aid decision-making and the implementation of relevant long-term strategies, including risk prediction.
I would contend that Canada’s ‘draft’ Sustainable Development Strategy does not follow these basic UN principles. I plan to confront Minister Dabrusin in writing with this.
Geoff Strong