Ontario plans for carbon pricing program
Published by Joseph Green,
Editor
World Cement,
Bloomberg are reporting that Ontario plans to raise C$1.9 billion a year from its proposed cap-and-trade program starting in 2017, as it joins with Quebec and California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Ontario projects it would generate about C$18 per carbon t in the joint market where businesses buy carbon-emission allowances in an auction. Proceeds will be directed toward boosting energy efficiency, public transport, geothermal projects and clean technology.
Ontario is the latest Canadian province to introduce a regime to reduce greenhouse gases, which it’s aiming to cut by 15% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 37 percent by 2030.
Industries with high emissions and facing international competition, such as cement, would get free allowances until 2020 when the government will review the program.
Edited from source by Joseph Green. Source: Bloomberg
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/the-americas/26022016/ontario-plans-carbon-pricing-program-586/
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