The greenhouse gas emissions coverage of carbon pricing instruments for Canadian provinces
The greenhouse gas emissions coverage of carbon pricing instruments for Canadian provinces
Author
Dobson, Sarah
Winter, Jennifer
Boyd, Brendan
Faculty Advisor
Date
2019
Keywords
greenhouse gas emissions , carbon pricing , Canada
Abstract (summary)
This paper focuses primarily on provincial systems’ emissions coverage: the share
of emissions subject to a carbon price. The federal government has set a pricing
benchmark, the minimum level of emissions coverage that provincial pricing
policies are required to meet. The federal backstop — consisting of a carbon
tax and output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large emitters — is imposed
on provinces whose policies don’t measure up to the federal benchmark. We
examine how the coverage of implemented, announced and former provincial
pricing policies measure up to the benchmark and backstop. Using reported
emissions data for each province from 2015, we provide an estimate of emissions
coverage in each province from the policies in effect in 2019.
Publication Information
Dobson, S., Winter, J. and Boyd, B. (2019). The greenhouse gas emissions coverage of carbon pricing instruments for Canadian provinces. The School of Public Policy Publications, 12:6. https://doi.org/10.11575/sppp.v12i0.53155
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Item Type
Article
Language
English
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
