Closing the Gap between Canadian Emissions Targets and Performance

CIGI PAPERS

NO. 105 — MAY 2016

CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN CANADIAN EMISSIONS TARGETS AND PERFORMANCE THE ROLE OF A NATIONAL CARBON TAX JEFF RUBIN

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Closing the Gap between Canadian Emissions Targets and Performance

Published on May 31, 2016

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his intention of forging a national climate change strategy with the provinces to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to at least 30 percent below their 2005 levels by 2030. Yet without a national standard for emissions pricing, and a federal mechanism to enforce it, the country has been left with a hodgepodge of highly disparate provincial emissions regulations that put Canada in no better position to achieve current emissions targets than it was to meet past targets. The federal government needs to assume a leadership role by establishing a national carbon tax that can be harmonized with existing provincial pricing mechanisms to achieve national emissions reduction targets.

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