Open AccessManaging Your Carbon Footprint: Impacts and Opportunities Arising From Alberta’s Climate Change Legislation
Author(s) -
Dana Saric,
Lorne Carson,
Guido Bachmann
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr1240
Subject(s) - climate change , legislation , carbon footprint , electricity , corporate governance , greenhouse gas , business , renewable energy , climate change mitigation , environmental economics , environmental resource management , natural resource economics , footprint , environmental planning , environmental science , economics , political science , engineering , finance , ecology , electrical engineering , paleontology , law , biology
This article explores Alberta’s climate change policies and laws in conjunction with parallel federal climate change measures. The authors provide an overview of the existing regulatory structure applicable to industrial carbon emissions, and an evaluation of the recent evolution of the regulatory structure. The comprehensive regulatory structure as a whole is then analyzed for its practical impacts across industries, and the authors identify a number of strategies for oil and gas producers, natural gas-fired electricity generators, renewable power project developers, and public entities to manage their performance within the new Alberta governance model for climate change management.