Sentences with phrase «national carbon price plan»

A Q&A with economist Andrew Leach on what we know about the Trudeau government's national carbon price plan, and all the questions that remain unanswered

But if you accept Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's assessment, the biggest risk factor at play is losing Alberta's support for the national carbon pricing plan and its ensuing collapse if no pipeline gets built.

Not exact matches

First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, while laying out his national carbon - pricing plan, just suggested as much in a speech at Calgary's Petroleum Club last week.

On the other side of the border, where even Hillary Clinton wasn't planning a national price on carbon, we expect to see one from Donald Trump precisely never.

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

Although nine (of 33) Chinese regions have run cap - and - trade programs for several years, the national plan will double the global amount of carbon pollution globally that has a price tag attached to it.

Following British Columbia's lead, carbon prices have now been introduced in Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, and the national government intends to institute a national carbon tax plan in 2018.

The price of carbon credits has also fallen, while plans to introduce national trading schemes, particularly in the US and Australia, remain uncertain.

Finance Canada is quietly pushing the idea of a federal carbon tax as the Liberal government looks to set a minimum national price and complement provincial carbon pricing plans, sources say.

The Wellington - Halton Hills MP has outlined a detailed plan to introduce a national carbon price that would reach $ 130 a tonne by 2030, and which includes a restructuring of the tax code to ensure the plan acts as an overall tax cut.