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Regulating Carbon in Canada Divergent Approaches: Greenhouse gas mitigation in Canada and Australia

By Philip Gass, David Sawyer on November 18, 2012

With the release of Lessons for Canada: Implementation of Australia's Carbon Pricing Mechanism, IISD has developed a companion piece to provide some additional Canadian context to Tony Beck's analysis of the implementation of carbon pricing in Australia.

We have provided a short briefing with some comment regarding what the Australian experience with carbon pricing can offer for Canadian industry and policy-makers. As the Canadian government continues to move forward with sector-by-sector regulation of greenhouse gases and individual provinces continue to implement and strengthen subnational regulatory and pricing mitigation policies, the Australian experience can provide some valuable insight and offer a "parallel universe" to which Canada can compare its own approach to climate change.

Report details

Topic
Climate Change Mitigation
Region
Canada
Australia
Project
Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada
Focus area
Climate
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2011