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Canada eases near-term Clean Fuel Standard targets due to COVID-19 concerns

Published 21:04 on June 22, 2020  /  Last updated at 00:42 on June 23, 2020  / Matthew Lithgow /  Americas, Canada, RINs & LCFS

The Canadian government will lessen the short-term carbon intensity reduction targets for its proposed Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) in response to the coronavirus pandemic, while making the GHG abatement goals more ambitious later on in the decade to maintain the stringency of the policy, the federal environment ministry said Monday.
The Canadian government will lessen the short-term carbon intensity reduction targets for its proposed Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) in response to the coronavirus pandemic, while making the GHG abatement goals more ambitious later on in the decade to maintain the stringency of the policy, the federal environment ministry said Monday.


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