Ditte Juul Jørgensen, the European Commission’s director general for energy, joined Mollie Johnson, assistant deputy minister for Natural Resources Canada’s low-carbon energy sector, and host Linda Solomon Wood for a special panel on Canada-EU climate partnership.
How does Canada reconcile two seemingly contradictory positions: trying to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 while at the same time supporting oil pipelines and fossil fuel exports?
“I think it’s an energy transition, it’s not an energy stop and change.” – Mollie Johnson
Conversations is presented by the Canadian Centre for Journalism. This episode was sponsored by Canada’s National Observer and jointly organized by CNO, the Delegation of the European Union to Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
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