Cinq caractéristiques d'une tarification efficace du carbone industriel

The briefing outlines five essential characteristics for effective industrial carbon pricing in Canada: healthy credit markets, equity between companies, strategic revenue use, transparency, and policy certainty. It warns that current systems in several provinces are underperforming due to oversupply of credits and unfair performance standards, which could halve their effectiveness in reducing emissions if not addressed.

• Industrial carbon pricing systems in Canada are critical for reducing emissions and maintaining competitiveness, but several provincial systems are currently underperforming and require modernization to reach their full potential.
• Credit markets in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan are at risk of oversupply, which lowers credit values and could reduce the effectiveness of emission reductions by half and decrease investments in low-carbon projects.
• Performance standards based on historical emissions, used in Ontario and Alberta for most emitters, create unfair competition by favoring high-emitting facilities; however, Alberta's single standard for all electricity producers is cited as a best practice that aided the phase-out of coal.
• The use of revenues in Ontario is criticized for creating perverse incentives by allowing companies to recover the full cost of their emissions if they commit to future reductions.
• A lack of transparency in credit trading, where volumes and prices are kept private, prevents governments and the public from identifying and solving market problems in real-time.

APA

Canadian Climate Institute (2025). Cinq caractéristiques d'une tarification efficace du carbone industriel. https://institutclimatique.ca/cinq-caracteristiques-tarification-efficace-carbone-industriel/

Chicago

Canadian Climate Institute. Cinq caractéristiques d'une tarification efficace du carbone industriel. 2025. https://institutclimatique.ca/cinq-caracteristiques-tarification-efficace-carbone-industriel/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{canadianclimateinstitute2025cinq, author = {{Canadian Climate Institute}}, title = {{Cinq caractéristiques d'une tarification efficace du carbone industriel}}, institution = {Canadian Climate Institute}, year = {2025}, month = feb, url = {https://institutclimatique.ca/cinq-caracteristiques-tarification-efficace-carbone-industriel/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }