Sustainability Suspicions

Here is the announcement for my my VPL talk to be held Thursday Feb. 5, 2015 at 7 pm at the Vancouver Public Library.  Click on it for a lar...

It seems ironic that people who argue vaguely that we should all do our part against accelerating carbon pollution will then react to specif...

Please follow the link to get free access to our Commentary in Nature calling for a  moratorium on new oil-sands development and transporta...

Here is the press release for our Nature paper, released June 25, calling for a moratorium on oil sands expansion. This means no loss of cu...

Sorry, folks, but if you care about the environment – the planet for that matter – your strategy to stop oil pipelines is futile i...

On May 7th 2013, I was among twelve Canadian climate scientists and energy experts who sent a letter addressed to Natural Resources Minister...

My whirlwind 2 days in DC April 10-11 included 3 hours of congressional testimony, meetings with EPA staff, a meeting with NGOs and media, a...

On April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC I will present  a 5 minute oral testimony.  I was also asked to prepare this more detailed wri...

by Mark Jaccard Originally published in The Vancouver Sun March 15, 2013 Over the past year, readers of The Vancouver Sun have been bom...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in The Hill on March 13, 2013 As a Canadian energy and climate economist, I have first-hand experience ...

On February 25th I and three climate scientists, along with activist-writers Tzeporah Berman and Bill McKibben , held a press conference to...

The global warming threat requires a rapid reduction in the carbon pollution emitted from every country in the world. But just as each count...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in  Alternatives Journal , 2011 In 1997,  then-prime-minister Jean Chrétien  committed Canada to dram...