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- Proposal text
- The GPC supports revising the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to include all GHG emissions from the animal agriculture industry.
- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- Animal agriculture is either the largest or second-largest carbon emitter globally of any industry. The IPCC estimated livestock rearing's global emissions contributions to be 14.5%. However, studies using top-down measurement rather than bottom-up approaches including land use and deforestation have shown the number is closer to 37% of all global GHG emissions coming from animal agriculture. Amending the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to include emissions from animal agriculture would send a clear price signal to this heavily-polluting industry and would help Canada reach net-zero emissions much faster.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- Add to current GPC policy.
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- 1. Animal agriculture's emissions are chronically underestimated. The IPCC says 14.5% but this comprehensive study shows the number is closer to 37% https://sentientmedia.org/the-climate-crisis-secret/ 2. "You Want to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Food? Focus on What You Eat, Not Whether Your Food Is Local,” Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local 3. Climate change: 'Global veganisation is now a survival imperative' - IPCC expert reviewer https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468715/climate-change-global-veganisation-is-now-a-survival-imperative-ipcc-expert-reviewer 4. Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-dairy/ 5. Meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and producing 60% of agriculture's direct GHG emissions. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
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Reference: PVC-PROP-2023-08-4150
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Conversation with Douglas Chandler
Keep it simple. In principle, GHG pricing should apply to all industries and consumer activities, including all kinds of agriculture. I know this creates a problem for the price of food, but this is a basic income problem not a production problem. It also highlights the urgency of implementing a carbon border tax.
The area I moved to ( Grey Bruce ) has over the last 30 years put more land into cropping versus grazing land. Absurdly there are subsidies for corn growing used as biofuel even though it is a net loss of energy. The land is much less biodiverse now , all the fencerows are taken out. There is much more erosion. It is not animal agriculture as such it is the degenerative agriculture promoted in an export driven GDP focused economy that wrecks the biosphere. We must be very careful with black labelling animal agriculture as worse than cropping .I am AGAINST this proposal ,but can't find the access for the grading
PS We eat 75% vegetarian -but bringing in almond milk from California is not the way to go.
Good point. I guess my primary concern is the political backlash this could create as a talking point. We're already suffering food issues and proposing to make production more expensive seems kind of tone deaf. I'll have to think on this.
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