

Another deck on Canadian Climate Effort
I spent some time at the OECD recently and updated a whack of folks on Canadian climate policy. I sat back and took stock of the global state-of-play. Apparently we are well ahead on policy design and implementation. The federal carbon price floor is step change to align prices to mitigate the longer-term risks of an inefficient provincial patchwork. But the federal floor is really just a complement to (mostly) serious provincial actions. There are of course headwinds, but


Climate Policy Tough Love? An assessment of the federal carbon price backstop
Download assessment of federal carbon price backstop here. The federation has normalized around a level of GHG policy effort that is delivering GHG reductions now. Our analysis points to a significant downward trend in Canada’s GHG pathway that was, just a year ago, seemingly unimaginable. With the federal announcement of a backstop carbon price, we can expect more. More GHG reductions, more innovation and more technology deployment. We can also expect more to come by focus