Canada: Climate Change

The July 2026 Pathways Plus MOU establishes a groundbreaking framework linking quantified emissions reduction commitments to regulatory incentives under Alberta's TIER regime. How will company-specific carbon capture targets be allocated among Oil Sands Alliance participants, and what regulatory consequences will companies face if they fail to meet their commitments?

Canada, Alberta and the Oil Sands Alliance have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding that integrates emissions reductions, oil sands production growth and export infrastructure development into a unified policy framework. The agreement positions the Pathways Plus carbon capture and storage project as the centrepiece, targeting infrastructure operations by 2032 and broader completion by 2035, while establishing fiscal incentives and regulatory streamlining measures to support major resource development.

Canada's new Taxonomy and Transition Planning Council marks a pivotal development in sustainable finance, establishing voluntary guidelines for classifying green and transition investments across six priority sectors.

In January 2026, Environment and Climate Change Canada (“ECCC”) announced that all reporting requirements for Phases 2 and 3 of Canada’s Federal Plastics Registry will be delayed...

On March 5, 2026, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Health Canada (HC) published...

Canada's newly released multi-billion-dollar Defence Industrial Strategy (the "Strategy") represents a new effort to rebuild Canada's defence and industrial capacity...

The federal Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulation ("SUP Regulations") was set to introduce a ban on the manufacture, import and sale of certain single-use plastic manufactured items...

The Federal Court (Court) recently set aside the direction of an Environment and Climate Change Canada inspector (Inspector) issued pursuant to the Fisheries Act (Direction).

With the UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, underway in Belém, Brazil, biodiversity and nature conservation is high on the global agenda. And in England, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is an example of how policy...