TomorrowNow – Manitoba’s Green Plan: Stakeholder consultations on climate change

The report details a bottom-up consultation process in Manitoba involving nine group sessions and 67 bilateral meetings between October 2013 and January 2015. It identifies the province's unique emissions profile, dominated by transportation (38.4%) and agriculture (31.3%), and provides a suite of consensus recommendations across governance, regulatory streamlining, and energy efficiency. A significant portion of the document explores carbon pricing options, including a proposed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) model and Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR) such as vehicle registration fee adjustments, to support the transition to a low-carbon economy.

• Manitoba's greenhouse gas emissions profile is distinct due to its reliance on renewable hydro-electricity, with transportation and agriculture together accounting for over two-thirds of the total portfolio.
• Stakeholders reached consensus on several governance and operational recommendations, including the use of a sustainability lens in budgets, the creation of a civil service group to review outdated regulations, and the adoption of 18 green economy indicators to track environmental, economic, and social progress.
• There is broad stakeholder support for implementing mandatory GHG reporting at a threshold of 25,000 tonnes, provided the approach remains consistent with other provinces and the federal system.
• Stakeholder views on carbon pricing are divided: civil society generally supports it for emissions reduction and leveling the playing field for clean energy, while industry is more cautious, with some opposing it entirely and others only accepting it as an equivalency approach or for offset markets.
• The report proposes an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) model for carbon mitigation where industry pays a levy into a non-profit Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), which then recycles those funds back to the covered sectors for low-carbon activities.
• As part of Environmental Fiscal Reform, the report suggests reforming vehicle registration fees to incentivize the purchase of low-emission vehicles, noting that Manitoba has only 0.8 percent of Canada's hybrid and electric vehicles despite having 3.6 percent of the population.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2015). TomorrowNow – Manitoba’s Green Plan: Stakeholder consultations on climate change. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tomorrownow-manitoba-green-plan-stakeholder-consultation-summary.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. TomorrowNow – Manitoba’s Green Plan: Stakeholder consultations on climate change. 2015. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tomorrownow-manitoba-green-plan-stakeholder-consultation-summary.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2015tomorrownow, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{TomorrowNow – Manitoba’s Green Plan: Stakeholder consultations on climate change}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2015}, month = nov, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tomorrownow-manitoba-green-plan-stakeholder-consultation-summary.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }