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Revenue Recycling

May 11 2016

Making carbon pricing fair in rural and urban areas

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Climate and Energy

In previous blogs, we’ve explored how carbon pricing is expected to affects households with different income-levels and how different revenue recycling options can address potential fairness issues for low-income households. In this last blog of the series, we address additional fairness issues such as the impact on rural and urban households. There are multiple dimensions […]

household fairness
Apr 27 2016

What share of carbon pricing revenues are needed to do no harm?

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Climate and Energy

In our previous blog, we explored how carbon pricing is expected to affect households with different income-levels in different provinces. Here, we discuss how different revenue recycling options affect fairness for low-income households, and what share of provincial carbon pricing revenues would be needed to avoid unfairly burdening them. Revenue recycling options for making carbon […]

Household Fairness of Carbon Pricing
Apr 20 2016

Household Fairness of Carbon Pricing

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Climate and Energy

The Ecofiscal Commission recently released a research paper on provincial carbon pricing and household fairness to complement our broader report, Choose Wisely, which looks at how provinces could use carbon revenue. The research team’s next three blogs will lean on both reports to explore different dimensions of household fairness of carbon pricing. To start, this […]

Nova Scotia - Atlantic Canada - Carbon pricing
Apr 19 2016

Peter Nicholson on Recycling Revenue from Carbon Pricing in Nova Scotia

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Climate and Energy

by Peter Nicholson On April 14th we held a live panel discussion: The Revenue Recycling Opportunity for Atlantic Canada. Peter Nicholson was one of our panellists. Here are his opening remarks. In Nova Scotia, the prevailing attitude toward carbon pricing lies somewhere between skeptical and outright hostile. So there is a steep hill to climb […]

Apr 13 2016

Choosing Wisely: Nova Scotia

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Climate and Energy

Has a swell of support for carbon pricing been building in Nova Scotia? In 2014, the Roundtable on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity recommended the consideration of implementing a provincial or regional revenue-neutral carbon tax. Similar recommendations were echoed by the NS Tax and Regulatory Review. The idea of an Atlantic carbon pricing system across multiple […]

debt - revenue recycling
Apr 8 2016

Choosing Wisely: Ontario

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Climate and Energy

In February, Ontario released the details of its planned cap-and-trade program. The program will launch in January 2017, eventually linking with Quebec and California’s systems in 2018. In the first year of operation, it is expected to raise $1.9 billion per year, given that allocations are being provided for free to large industrial emitters, thus […]

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