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Climate change, competititiveness and environmental federalism

3 Jun 2008

My role will be to focus on the features of a carbon tax/carbon tariff approach (and to a lesser extent of cap-and-trade systems) in the context of addressing several of these complicated and contentious policy areas: the free-rider problem and international competitiveness, the Canada-US interface, the looming federal-provincial battle over jurisdiction, policies and instruments, the on-going Kyo [...] In fact, with the exception of Germany and the UK, the rest of the EU has experienced per capita emissions comparable to Canada and Australia [compare the last row of column 3 with the first two rows, TJC]. [...] The carbon footprint of using (consuming) the 60 barrels will be assigned to the importing country and the footprint of the 40 barrels will be assigned to Canada. [...] On this score, it obviously helps that there is a base year (1990) for the targets, but the reality is that the carbon footprint relating to the production of the dramatic rise in consumption [on China’s part, for example] of Canadian resource exports will be assigned to us, when a case can be made that a goodly portion should be assigned to China. [...] The first, and most important of the two, is that if addressing climate change is left only to the developed or industrial countries, then the world will not be able to avoid the environmental tipping point.
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Authors

Courchene, Thomas J

Pages
22
Published in
Canada

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