{"id":95699,"date":"2022-10-04T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/carbon-pricing-series-a-climate-justice-and-feminist-perspective\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:58:42","slug":"carbon-pricing-series-a-climate-justice-and-feminist-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/carbon-pricing-series-a-climate-justice-and-feminist-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Pricing Series: A Climate Justice and Feminist Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/em> before the Supreme Court of Canada. In our new Carbon Pricing Series, we learn about their experiences and the arguments they made on behalf of their clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this video, Professor Nathalie Chalifour speaks about her role as an intervener alongside her co-counsel, Professor Anne Levesque, as they represented Friends of the Earth and the National Association of Women in the Law (NAWL). As interveners, they brought a climate justice and feminist argument before the Court, arguing that climate change can have a severe impact on vulnerable groups and risks worsening existing inequalities. Upholding the carbon pricing law under the national concern branch of peace, order and good government is therefore an equality-affirming interpretation of the Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The <\/span>Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i> is an Act of the Parliament of Canada that sets a minimum national standard on greenhouse gas pricing to reduce emissions in Canada and fulfil the country\u2019s commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Some Canadian provinces challenged the constitutionality of that Act, taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada based on an argument that it was beyond the jurisdiction of the federal government to impose a national standard on greenhouse emissions because natural resource regulation under the Constitution falls under provincial jurisdiction. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the landmark decision <\/span>References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, <\/span><\/i>ruled that the <\/span>Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i> is a valid exercise of federal powers. The Court found that climate change is an existential threat to human life that the issue must be approached as a matter of national concern through coordinated national and international efforts.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re: Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act before the Supreme Court of Canada. In this video, Professor Nathalie Chalifour speaks about her role as an intervener alongside Professor Anne Levesque as they co-represented Friends of the Earth and the National Association of Women in the Law (NAWL) to bring a climate justice and feminist argument before the Court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25,120,9],"class_list":["post-95699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-constitutional-law","tag-environmental-law","tag-public-law"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":25,"label":"Constitutional Law"},{"value":120,"label":"Environmental Law"},{"value":9,"label":"Public Law"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/carbon-03-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"\u00c9tienne Trepanier","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/etienne\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Constitutional Law","slug":"constitutional-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":120,"name":"Environmental Law","slug":"environmental-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":120,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Environmental Law","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":9,"name":"Public Law","slug":"public-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":41,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}