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Clearing the air on federal and provincial climate change policy in Canada

13 Jan 2010

The government’s Turning the in the Canadian federal proposal (with the exception of Corner announcement of $1.5 billion for the Clean Air technology fund contributions). [...] A recent report by for the easing of the transition to a lower-carbon Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and economy. [...] Climate policy — for example, a the tax or the permit system, emitters face the same carbon tax — is modelled as an increase in the cost of emissions price and the same incentive to abate. [...] The extent to which the cost increases depends on the carbon content of the good. [...] The change in productive activity in the econ- included and the carbon price differs by emissions omy resulting from climate policy is measured as a per- centage change in GDP relative to the baseline, or source, the costs of achieving a given reduction tar- business-as-usual (BAU), scenario.
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Authors

Snoddon, Tracy

Pages
28
Published in
Canada

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