Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada
Recognizing the need to rethink climate policy along regulatory lines, IISD launched Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada.
The carbon pricing discourse of the last two decades has been reset as the Canadian government moves to regulate carbon emissions with performance regulations. IISD's initiative has three key objectives:
- Identify the best way to regulate carbon emissions.
- Explore how federal regulations can coexist with diverse provincial carbon pricing and regulatory actions.
- Provide recommendations on how Canada can achieve a coherent national carbon mitigation framework.
To achieve these objectives, IISD will convene leading thinkers on mitigation policy, use analytics to make public information on policy choices and communicate key findings to help inform the development of Canadian greenhouse gas mitigation policy.
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Blog
G20 Countries Must Speed Up Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms
Like dancers doing the tango, G20 countries step forward and back when it comes to climate action. It's time to pick up the pace. Read More -
Blog
What the UN Panel's Special Climate Change Report Means for Canada
We comb the IPCC special report to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change. Read More -
Blog
Nordhaus Nobel Recognizes What We've Long Known: Carbon pricing works
In 1984, Nordhaus concluded climate change is real, its impacts are global and comparable to economic depression, and it's likely to occur in sudden jolts. Read More -
Commentary
Carbon Dividends Could Save Carbon Pricing – and Create a New National Climate Consensus
Dividend payouts could hold the key to Canada's carbon pricing strategy getting back on track. Read More -
Blog
Climate at the Crossroads
It began and ended with two new cabinets and two new words: climate change.They were added to the title of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first Read More -
Paper
Canada’s Emissions Trends 2014 Report: Updates, outcomes and reflections
The Government of Canada has released its 2014 Canada’s Emissions Trends report. The report provides information on Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) Read More -
Paper
A Climate Gift or a Lump of Coal? The emission impacts of Canadian and U.S. greenhouse gas regulations in the electricity sector
On June 2, 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed regulations for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from Read More -
Paper
Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada: Climate Policy Year in Review and Trends, 2013
Dave Sawyer and Philip Gass have developed this piece as a year in review and a look forward to trends emerging for 2014 with regards to climate Read More -
Paper
Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Regulations: The implications of alternative proposals
Canada's oil and gas industry is currently negotiating with the provincial and federal governments over new greenhouse gas regulations that will be Read More -
Paper
Ontario Moving in the Right Direction on Climate Policy: IISD input on climate policy design to the Ministry of the Environment
A proposed move by Ontario to establish elements of a carbon pricing system is a major step forward for climate policy.This move forward could define Read More