comparing canada with denmark

What BC (and Canada) can learn from the Danish Experience

Comparing British Columbia With Denmark

What are the main differences in carbon pricing (tax and cap and trade) frameworks in Denmark and BC?

What actions may help BC enhance its GHG emission reductions? By extension the rest of Canada?

What are the major obstacles that make it difficult for BC to implement those actions?

Overview

Why BC & Denmark?

In BC

Some Exceptions….

Island Tug & Barge ltd v British Columbia, 2011 BCSC 396, [2011] BCWLD 2981.

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, SBC 2007, c 42.

What about Denmark?

Some potential explanations for divergence

Increase the carbon taxChange formulation: invest part of the

revenues in technology, the other in tax cuts Institute the not in effect cap and trade

statuteRegulate emissions more strictly Persuade the federal government to do

something!

Some things BC could do now…

Major Obstacles

The EU model is a fantastic example of what Canada could do given the federalist structure

BC can’t do it alone [Quebec helping], but needs more

Division of powers also issue, but not insurmountable

They also hinder long term policies

From New Zealand

Denmark, Government of Denmark, The Danish Climate Policy Plan: Towards a Low Carbon Society, (Copenhagen: Denmark, August 2013).

Canada, Ministry of the Environment Canada’s Emissions Trends, (Gatineau: Environment Canada, 2014).

Critiques of Carbon Pricing

Conclusion