{"id":95795,"date":"2022-09-13T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/arguing-the-economic-side-of-carbon-pricing\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T18:47:16","slug":"arguing-the-economic-side-of-carbon-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/arguing-the-economic-side-of-carbon-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguing the Economic Side of Carbon Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the <\/span>References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i> before the Supreme Court of Canada. In our new Carbon Pricing Series, we learn about their experiences and the arguments they made on behalf of their clients. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This video features Professor Stewart Elgie, an expert in law and economics, who represented Canada\u2019s Ecofiscal Commission as an intervener before the Supreme Court. Professor Elgie\u2019s intervention addressed the economic aspects of the proposed carbon pricing solution. He argued that carbon and pollution pricing are among the most effective ways to counter today\u2019s pressing environmental problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The <\/span>Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i> is an Act of the Parliament of Canada that sets a minimum national standard on greenhouse gas pricing to reduce emissions in Canada and fulfil the country\u2019s commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Some Canadian provinces challenged the constitutionality of the <\/span>Act<\/span><\/i>, taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada based on the argument that it was beyond the jurisdiction of the federal government to impose a national standard on greenhouse gas emissions because natural resource regulation under the Constitution falls under provincial jurisdiction.  <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the landmark decision <\/span>References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i>, ruled that the <\/span>Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act<\/span><\/i> is a valid exercise of federal powers. The Court found that climate change is an existential threat to human life and that the issue must be approached as a matter of national concern through coordinated national and international efforts.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act before the Supreme Court of Canada. This video features Professor Stewart Elgie, an expert in law and economics, who represented Canada\u2019s Ecofiscal Commission as an intervener before the Supreme Court to argue that carbon and pollution pricing are among the most effective ways to counter today\u2019s pressing environmental problems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[25,120,9],"class_list":["post-95795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","category-no-genre","tag-constitutional-law","tag-environmental-law","tag-public-law"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"},{"value":6,"label":"No Genre"}],"post_tag":[{"value":25,"label":"Constitutional Law"},{"value":120,"label":"Environmental Law"},{"value":9,"label":"Public Law"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/carbon-04-1-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"\u00c9tienne Trepanier","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/etienne\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0},{"term_id":6,"name":"No Genre","slug":"no-genre","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":6,"category_count":13,"category_description":"","cat_name":"No Genre","category_nicename":"no-genre","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Constitutional Law","slug":"constitutional-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":120,"name":"Environmental Law","slug":"environmental-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":120,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Environmental Law","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":9,"name":"Public Law","slug":"public-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":41,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}