| Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the premiers in Vancouver this week to discuss climate policy. The Liberal environmental platform states: "We will ensure that the provinces and territories have adequate tools to design their own policies to meet these commitments, including their own carbon pricing policies."
Here are five things to know about putting a price on carbon: 1. The point of carbon pricing is to charge producers and consumers for the cost of the carbon pollution they are discharging into the atmosphere, to discourage polluting behaviour, reward innovation in energy efficiency and, depending on how the system is designed, potentially to produce revenues for addressing environmental impacts...............................................Full Article: Source
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