{"id":661347,"date":"2026-10-30T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:12:10","slug":"canada-can-definitely-transition-to-renewables-by-2050-expert-tells-youth-climate-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661347\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada can ‘definitely’ transition to renewables by 2050, expert tells youth climate trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An expert in environmental engineering and atmospheric science says it’s “definitely” possible for Canada to transition to full renewable energy by 2050.<\/p>\n

Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson says at Canada’s first youth-led climate trial that it’s technically and economically feasible \u2014 but there are social and political obstacles.<\/p>\n

Jacobson has developed sophisticated models and road maps to help cities, states and countries, including Canada, make the shift to renewable energy.<\/p>\n

His testimony says the country has “humongous” resources and potential, including wind, solar and geothermal opportunities, along with pre-existing hydroelectric capacity, and it does not need to rely on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

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But he says that whether Canada actually makes the shift by mid-century “is more of a social and political question.”<\/p>\n

Jacobson is a witness for 15 young plaintiffs in the lawsuit underway in Federal Court in Vancouver, arguing that federal legislation violates their constitutional rights by continuing Canada’s trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Catherine Boies Parker, told the court in her opening statement the case was not about the existence of climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rather, it hinges on whether the government is “constitutionally required to stop making it worse,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The plaintiffs are asking this court to hold Canada legally accountable for its role in continuing and worsening the climate crisis that is causing harm.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-661347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}