Canada announces national mandatory carbon pricing plan

Published 19:20 on October 3, 2016  /  Last updated at 21:59 on October 4, 2016  /  Americas, Canada, Carbon Taxes, US  /  1 Comment

All Canadian provinces and territories must introduce carbon pricing across large swathes of their economies from 2018 but face the choice of rolling out cap-and-trade or imposing a tax that must hit C$50/tonne by 2022, the federal government announced Monday.

All Canadian provinces and territories must introduce carbon pricing across large swathes of their economies from 2018 but face the choice of rolling out cap-and-trade or imposing a tax that must hit C$50/tonne by 2022, the federal government announced Monday.

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