| Long-Term
Energy and Climate Change
On February
16 of 2005, as the Kyoto Protocol took effect, the Government
requested that the NRTEE consider the energy and climate
change issues and challenges that Canada faces and provide
advice on a long-term strategy.
The NRTEE’s
long-term advice will examine how Canada can set itself
on a course to achieve deep and long-term reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions while positioning Canada
for maximum economic benefit.
It will
also examine Canada’s international role with
regard to climate change in the following three areas:
- Integrating climate change objectives
into Canadian foreign policy, trade and aid objectives;
- Promoting linkages between Canada’s
emerging carbon market and existing/emerging international
ones, as well as ways to shape future global markets
for carbon through domestic instruments and international
initiatives; and,
- Maximizing trade opportunities,
in particular developing a strategy to promote the
export of Canadian climate-related technologies.
Advice
on a Long-term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change
Official release - June 21, 2006
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