Linking existing and proposed GHG emissions trading schemes in North America

Erik Haites and Michael Mehling

Climate Policy, 2009, vol. 9, issue 4, 373-388

Abstract: A number of greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes have been implemented or proposed for Canada, the USA and Mexico. Links between those schemes make sense, given the close economic ties between the countries. All of the existing and proposed schemes, except Alberta's, include provisions for unilateral use of credits and/or allowances from other schemes with quantity and qualitative restrictions. A federal scheme in the USA is likely to pre-empt state schemes, with the possible exception of a few states with more stringent schemes, especially if states are given a role in the federal scheme. In Canada, provinces that want-and are able-to establish that their schemes are equivalent to the federal scheme could continue to operate. Canada will have to modify its proposed scheme to achieve its expressed desire of linking with regulatory-based emissions trading schemes in the USA and Mexico.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0622

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