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Seth Klein

Columnist Vancouver
Analysis, Energy, Politics, climate change, federal policy, provincial policy, environment
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About Seth Klein

Seth Klein is the team lead and director of strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank. He is now a freelance policy consultant, speaker, researcher and writer, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Seth is an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s urban studies program and remains a research associate with the CCPA’s B.C. office.

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28 Articles

Canada versus the IPCC: Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters

I am a political optimist by nature. I keep wanting to believe our federal government has turned a corner — that it has seen the light on the climate emergency and is ready to shift into high gear, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Reports from the Race to a Safer World
Opinion, Politics | May 5th 2022

Liberal-NDP deal no match for the climate emergency

We face a climate emergency — that is the existential threat of our time that must be decisively tackled in the three-year life of this agreement. And this agreement does not spell out an emergency plan, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Opinion, Politics | March 28th 2022

The urgent need to cap oil and gas sector emissions: Seth Klein’s testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources

"We pride ourselves on being climate leaders, yet we have been highly resistant to tackling our role as global producers of fossil fuels," writes Seth Klein.
Opinion | February 16th 2022

FortisBC doubles down on nefarious efforts to block electrification

The pledge to provide new buildings with 100 per cent renewable gas is a fiction, an imaginary and arbitrary assignment, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Opinion | January 26th 2022

The throne speech Premier John Horgan means to give

Columnist Seth Klein believes he has had a sneak peek at the B.C. government's Feb. 8 throne speech. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
Opinion | January 19th 2022

Getting off gas: A how-to guide to get fossil fuels out of your home

From the get-go, driven by concern for the climate emergency, we knew we wanted to get the gas out of our home.
Opinion | December 10th 2021

The battle for our lives

The terrain is shifting on the climate emergency, writes Seth Klein.
Reports from the Race to a Safer World
Opinion | November 22nd 2021

The climate throne speech Prime Minister Trudeau means to give

What would be the best speech from the throne Canadians could hear later this month? Here's an imaginary take on one that would put Canada on a path to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy right away.
Opinion | November 15th 2021

B.C. moves from leader to follower with new climate plan

Reviewing the plan, it’s as if this summer’s deeply distressing smash-up against the climate emergency never happened, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Opinion | October 27th 2021

This new Parliament holds the nation’s climate fate in its hands

For all of us who listen to the dire warnings of scientists, we know this new Parliament has our fate in its hands, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Election 2021
Opinion | September 22nd 2021
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