ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Barack Obama, Alternative Energy, Methane Emissions
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Lecture 17. 2 - climate change and carbon tax. 1997 big one kyoto - us didn"t ratify, ca backed out 2011, expires. Harper - 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. Pan canadian on clean growth and climate change. Pricing carbon pollution - by 2018 (not sk) Normal tax - will make people buy less. Cap and trade - govt sets levels of co2 emissions. All provinces need one or the other by 2018. Adapt and build resilience (adaptation) - research seeds to grow food. First province to implement a price on carbon (2007) Implementing a new carbon price on greenhouse gas emissions. As of jan 1, 2017, a carbon levy is applied to heating and transportation fuels such as diesel, gasoline, natural has and propane. Money is given to low income families - biweekly (form of carbon tax) Capping oil sands emissions to 100 mega-tonnes per year. All industries that emit ghg are subject to tax.
