ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Protocol On Economic Relations, Clean Technology, Alternative Energy
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Pan canadian framework: pricing carbon by 2018, all provinces agreed except for saskatchewan, adapt and build resilience (adaptation, clean technology, innovation, jobs (mitigation, report regularly and transparently, safeguard the rights of indigenous. Carbon pricing: 2018 must chose a carbon tax or cap and trade, carbon tax: it. Makes things more expensive in hopes people will use less of. It"s the market controlling how much co2 is released. Market determines the price of co2 emissions. Only allowing industries to have a certain number of units, that: cap and trade they can sell if the. Quebec: 2008 put a tax on carbon for the coal, natural gas, and petroleum production but only on the top 50 companies. They sell and trade permits to each other. Ontario joined this program in 2017: created a cap and trade deal with california. Ontario: phased out coal in 2013, increasing the availability in lower-carbon fuel, increase electric vehicles, improve energy efficiency in government buildings, alternative energy.
