Author: Erin Mullinger
The public policy discussion around strategies for designing energy and climate change policy is rife with technical jargon. To help simplify the complex set of policy options available, Getting it Straight provides a layperson’s guide to the main economic policy instruments available for addressing climate change, with a focus on energy production, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
This primer is part of the Getting it Right Project, which seeks to address the energy policies needed in Canada in an era of carbon constraint. The primer begins by defining and explaining some of the general terminology within the climate change policy portfolio and then explains a number of policy instruments available to decision-makers. Understanding the language of climate change is an important first step in the wider discussion of climate change and energy policy in Canada.