Canada
December 15 2020
Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. The first policy steps taken to meet our Paris Agreement commitment were guided by the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change (the Pan-Canadian Framework), which was adopted in December 2016. On December 11, 2020, the federal government released its Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy Plan (the Plan), which builds on the Pan-Canadian Framework and provides a road map forward to meet our 2030 emissions reduction target.
The Plan is the cornerstone of the federal government’s commitment in the 2020 Speech from the Throne to create over one million jobs, and includes 64 new measures and $15 billion in investments. This is in addition to the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s (CIB) $6 billion for clean infrastructure announced in October 2020 as part of the CIB’s Growth Plan, which targets investments in clean
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The Government of Canada has released the new federal climate
plan, entitled “
A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy – Canada s
strengthened climate plan to create jobs and support people,
communities and the planet” (Plan). Building on the
2016 Pan-Canadian Framework, the Plan claims it will “do
more to cut pollution in a practical and affordable way than any
other climate plan in Canada s history” sup>1,
including to exceed Canada s 2030 emissions reduction target
under the Paris Agreement and achieve net-zero emissions by
2050.
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