Yes, of course. We will send a copy of that report after this meeting.
In 2024, the Pembina Institute worked with Simon Fraser University to identify 23 indicators that represent best practices in climate and energy policy. We used those indicators to assess how Canada's federal and provincial governments were performing on climate and clean economy preparedness. We awarded provinces green, yellow and red ratings based on these indicators and based on their current policies and plans.
Some of our main findings were that two provinces are really leading. British Columbia and Quebec, as well as the federal government, are really showing leadership with emissions reduction targets backed up by public monitoring processes, with sector-specific measures like zero-emissions vehicle incentives or methane reduction targets and strategies to protect populations from the worst effects of climate change.
Two provinces are falling further behind. Even since last year, they have fallen even further behind. Alberta and Saskatchewan still don't have targets to reduce emissions by 2030. The climate plans they have released lack sufficient detail to be considered credible. They are also still actively opposing some federal climate measures like the phase-out of coal in Saskatchewan or measures to tackle oil and gas emissions in Alberta, mostly on economic grounds, while refusing to recognize that the economic impact of runaway climate change is quite significant or while failing to seek out billions of dollars of low carbon-aligned investment.
I'd like to highlight Alberta specifically. It's a good example because while it has a climate plan that was released in 2023, there's very little in the way of actual policy levers that would facilitate achievement of that plan. That is why Alberta was awarded mostly red ratings.
It's quite notable as well that one of the province's only green ratings—which is whether the province has a carbon price on industrial emitters that meets the federal benchmark—is now likely to be red given recent changes to TIER, especially the freezing of the headline price at $95 per tonne, which Alberta says it will retain for the foreseeable future. This threatens to undermine investment in key low-carbon technologies including carbon capture.