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Canada announces fund to reinvest proceeds from output-based pricing system

Environment and Climate Change Canada has launched the Output-Based Pricing System Proceeds Fund to invest in industrial initiatives that reduce...

COP26: Key outcomes and impact on voluntary carbon markets

Last month, Canada and nearly 200 other countries agreed to the Glasgow Climate Pact at COP26. We discuss how these international commitments and the...

Supreme Court ends uncertainty over constitutionality of federal carbon pricing framework

Even before the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (the GGPPA) received royal assent in June 2018, questions arose about the federal government’s...

Details of Ontario’s transition to emissions performance standards program released

On October 22, 2021, the Government of Ontario made several regulatory amendments and changes to incorporated documents to facilitate the...

Ontario’s new community net metering regulation for pilot projects

A new Ontario regulation is intended to support the gradual expansion of renewable energy net metering to multi-building pilot...

Federal climate accountability legislation receives royal assent

Canada’s new climate accountability legislation recently received royal assent. In their blog, Jake Sadikman, Evan Barz and Marleigh Dick...

Nova Scotia holds its third cap-and-trade auction

In their blog, Osler’s Jacob A. Sadikman, Richard J. King, Evan Barz and Marleigh Dick comment on the results of Nova Scotia’s recent...

Ontario’s first OEB approved renewable natural gas program

As Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy accelerates, one of the features of that transition has been the adoption of Renewable Natural...

The Supreme Court of Canada upholds the constitutionality of federal carbon pricing legislation

On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision, upholding the constitutionality of the Greenhouse Gas...