Canada to charge provinces for carbon emissions
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210114
Reuters : On 18 September Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna announced that the government would put a price on carbon emissions from any of the country’s provinces that do not adequately regulate emissions themselves. The policy will go into effect in October, McKenna said. She did not provide details about how the price would be set, what efforts the provinces are expected to make, or how the government would enforce the payments or penalties. She also did not address whether the current government would be altering the previous government’s pledge to cut emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, a target that is likely unreachable without significant efforts by both the national and provincial governments.
