Last week, in response to the results of the federal election, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would look at options for implementing a carbon price in his province. It’s a policy shift that embraces a core principle of the Pan-Canadian Framework: provinces creating their own, tailored approach to pricing carbon. A made-in-New-Brunswick approach […] The post New Brunswick embraces carbon pricing; it should choose wisely appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
Yesterday, the government of Alberta unveiled the details of its planned Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation (TIER for short). TIER will put a price on industrial GHG emissions in the province, replacing the previous government’s Carbon Competitiveness Incentive Regulation (CCIR). How does the policy design stack up? In this blog, I review some of […] The post Introducing TIER – Alberta’s new approach to pricing industrial GHG emissions appeared first on Canada'...| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
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