The Government of Canada must submit its 2030 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan by the end of March 2022. Since Canada has missed all of its climate targets to date, the IET has elected to support the development of this plan by publishing a set of proposals detailed on a sectorial basis.

In October 2021, the IET released the second edition of its Canadian Energy Outlook, which outlines decarbonization scenarios for Canada, and demonstrates that carbon neutrality is forcing us to fundamentally rethink greenhouse gas reduction strategies. Shortly thereafter in an analysis of the shorter-term measures taken, the IET identified a huge gap between publicly-announced measures and what would be needed to actually reach expected 2030 milestones.

The authors outline their proposed path to effective and meaningful climate action. This path builds upon evidence from a modelling exercise of unparalleled depth in the country, as well as on deep analyses of sectoral trends and barriers to decarbonization.

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