Canada's New Government is committed to delivering real reductions on greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

Diverse and complementary measures announced to date include:

• The Regulatory Framework for Air Emissions, which imposes mandatory targets on industry and gives them access to a range of cost-effective options to meet the targets, including:
  • a capped technology fund to help the Canadian industrial sector develop new solutions critical to reducing greenhouse gases;
  • a domestic emissions trading system. We will also look at future linkages with emissions trading systems in the U.S., and possibly Mexico, with further international linkages to be explored over time;
  • domestic offset credits to engage other sectors of the Canadian economy to make greenhouse gas reductions, and;
  • access to the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  
  
  
• Our Plan also:
  • addresses emissions from transportation by regulating for the first time the fuel efficiency of cars and light duty trucks, beginning with the 2011 model year,
  • strengthens energy efficiency standards for a number of energy-using products, including light bulbs, and
  • recognizes the urgent need to take action to improve indoor air quality and commits to implement measures to do so.
  
  
  
• $1.5 billion to support to support environmental provincial and territorial projects, to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution;
  
  
• $2 billion to support renewable fuel production;
  
  
• 5% renewable fuels content in gasoline by 2010 and2% renewable content in diesel fuel and heating oil by 2012 ;
  
  
• $2 billion for ecoENERGY Initiatives to help Canadians use energy more efficiently, boost renewable energy supplies and develop cleaner energy technologies;
  
  
• $1.3 billion for public transit;
  
  
• $100 million for ecoTRANSPORT Strategy for new initiatives in clean transportation;
  
  
• $36 million over the next two years for "scrappage" programs to retire older vehicles;
  
  
• Rebate of up to $2,000 on fuel-efficient vehicles and levy of up to $4,000 on vehicles that are fuel-inefficient;
  
  
• Tax credit for the purchase of monthly public transit passes;
  
  
• The formation of the ecoENERGY Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force to recommend the best ways for Canada to implement on a large scale this promising technology to capture carbon dioxide and store it deep underground; and
  
  
• $160 million over two years to offer performance-based rebates on new light duty vehicles.

Canada's New Government is also taking action to preserve Canada's natural heritage, strengthen the implementation of the Species at Risk Act, implement a new National Water Strategy and improve the enforcement of environmental protection laws.