TORONTO — Clean Energy Canada’s executive director Rachel Doran made the following statement in response to the Government of Canada’s announcement regarding the first projects to be reviewed by the new Major Projects Office: “The Prime Minister’s announcement of the first projects that will be fast tracked through Bill C-5 raises the question: what kind […] The post Canada needs to build the nation pointed to the future, not the past appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.| Clean Energy Canada
Carbon markets and offsets have failed to actually reduce emissions after decades of trying Source| Climate & Capitalism
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Canada woke up the day after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in unfamiliar territory. Our closest neighbour and biggest trade partner for the past century suddenly decided that Canada was not, in fact, a friend—and that our trade agreements were not really binding. Whether and which tariffs come or go is impossible to predict at […] The post Why Clean Equals Competitive When Building Canada’s Trade Alliances Beyond the US appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.| Clean Energy Canada
If the DOE undoes minimum energy efficiency standards, which are decades old, consumer costs will likely rise. The Trump Administration wants to rollback or rescind dozens of regulations that set m…| Energy Institute Blog
A new study finds that investing just one-third of the Social Climate Fund could subsidise up to 20 million heat pumps across the EU by 2032.| Cool Products
Only when you ignore environmental benefits and electricity bill impacts. U.S. electricity demand is on the rise. A data center boom, a possible renaissance in domestic manufacturing, and a push to…| Energy Institute Blog
This marks our final annual report, as the Commission comes to the end of our five-year mandate. In 2019, our work focussed once again on carbon pricing — a topic we first addressed in 2014 and have returned to regularly. Since our launch, the political landscape around carbon has changed significantly — and so has […] The post Annual Report 2019: Letter from the Chair appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
This week, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission released its final report. While we have a few loose ends to tie up in 2020, the report signals the end of our research mandate. Over the last five years, we’ve contributed to policy conversations across Canada about water, waste, traffic, risk, and climate change. I’d like to think that […] The post A final note on Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
The release of our final report yesterday highlighted Canada’s options for bridging the gap to its 2030 targets. Bottom line? There are only a finite number of approaches. We have regulations, subsidies, and carbon pricing. But the details of how governments design and implement those policies matters just as much as the choice of approach. […] The post Can we improve the efficiency of carbon pricing and regulations? appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
In the organization’s final report, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission underlines carbon pricing is the lowest-cost option for meeting emissions targets. In the wake of the federal election, it is clear that Canadians want more action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Stronger policies will be essential to achieve our 2030 Paris Accord target for GHG reductions. With […] The post Why carbon pricing remains the smartest policy tool appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
Yesterday, the Conference Board of Canada released an analysis of the impacts of carbon pricing on Canadian industry called Tipping the Scales: Assessing carbon competitiveness and leakage potential for Canada’s EITEIs. The report explains and unpacks some key nuances around competitiveness and leakage. But shortcomings in its framing and methodology ultimately detract from its accuracy […] The post Problematic new study overestimates effects of carbon pricing in Canada appeared first on ...| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
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
What are carbon border adjustments?| Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
California is tightening its GHG belt – who should feel the pinch? California has set some ambitious GHG reduction goals. Now the state is trying to figure out how to meet them. The costs of unmiti…| Energy Institute Blog
It’s crunch time for our climate future. We are living through a worsening storm of hard impacts, and all of the ways forward are rocky. We are more than 30 years on from the historic global …| Climate Value Exchange
Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.| The New Yorker