OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, clear transportation program supervisor at Clear Power Canada, made the next assertion in response to the federal authorities’s publication of the ultimate Clear Gas Laws:
“Clear Power Canada welcomes the publication of the Clear Gas Laws, a cornerstone federal local weather coverage that’s been six years within the making.
“Collectively, the transportation and oil and fuel sectors account for over half of Canada’s carbon emissions. The brand new rules assist lower air pollution from these sectors whereas supporting industries—like clear hydrogen and biofuels—that will probably be more and more in demand because the world transitions to web zero.
“The rules can even help the build-out of EV charging infrastructure, which, mixed with different insurance policies and incentives, will assist make EVs extra accessible and handy for Canadians hoping to keep away from sky-high costs on the fuel pump.
“Whereas the ultimate regulation makes some concessions, the coverage nonetheless represents a win for Canada’s efforts to chop air pollution. We’ll watch its real-world impacts intently, and Canada can course right as wanted.
“Within the meantime, we hope the federal authorities rides this momentum to advance different key local weather insurance policies just like the zero-emission automobile mandate and clear electrical energy commonplace, making certain these get out the door a lot faster than six years. In any case, there’s no time to waste.”
KEY FACTS
- The transportation and oil and fuel sectors every accounted for 159 and 179 megatonnes of emissions respectively in 2020—greater than half of Canada’s whole.
- The federal authorities’s Emissions Discount Plan requires that transportation emissions are lowered to 143 megatonnes and oil and fuel emissions are lowered to 110 megatonnes by 2030.
- In line with Surroundings and Local weather Change Canada, the Clear Fuels Laws would assist lower as much as 26.6 megatonnes of greenhouse fuel air pollution in 2030.
- The Clear Gas Laws set more and more stringent necessities on gasoline producers and importers to cut back the carbon depth of transportation fuels corresponding to gasoline and diesel.
- The brand new regulation is designed to come back into impact in 2023 at 25% stringency, progressively growing to 100% by 2030. However even in eight years, when the regulation is in full drive, the measure will add solely between 6 to 13 cents per litre of gasoline.
- The federal authorities’s forthcoming zero-emission automobile provide mandate will be certain that a minimum of 20% of latest automobile gross sales are electrical by 2026, a minimum of 60% are electrical by 2030, and 100% are by 2035.
- The federal authorities has additionally launched a complementary program, the $1.5-billion Clear Fuels Fund, to help clear gasoline manufacturing in Canada, together with superior biofuels and hydrogen initiatives.
- B.C., California, and Oregon even have comparable rules in place.
- A current Clear Power Canada evaluation in contrast the full possession prices of a variety of widespread electrical automobile fashions with gas-powered equivalents. With only one exception, the electrical model of each automobile analyzed was cheaper, normally considerably so. The evaluation discovered that the electrical Hyundai Kona, Canada’s second best-selling EV in 2021 is $17,800 cheaper to personal than the gas-powered Kona when fuel costs are $2 per litre.
