The Clean Fuel Regulations have tremendous potential to drive down Canada’s GHG emissions. This note provides an evaluation of the GHG emission impact of ECCC’s March 2022 update to the draft Clean Fuel Regulation. It then proposes recommended actions to increase the GHG emission reduction potential of the policy by 2030.

Ontario’s electoral candidates have many options for policy change and incentives to pursue as they build their party platforms and consider how they will lead Ontario for the next four years.

Canada is in a worldwide competition to attract the capital needed to meet the challenge of net-zero, and yet we are headed in the wrong direction with the current design of the new federal Clean Fuel Standard (CFS). It should be a market driver for non-fossil fuels. Instead, if adopted as written, it would act as a de facto subsidy for the fossil fuel sector.

To help businesses and fleet operators test and scale up short-haul, return-to-base ZEVs in Canadian cities, the Pembina Institute and UDSI partners developed tools and resources, and conducted research to inform public policies and best practices. We also convened public events that brought together industry, NGOs, government, innovators, and academia and cultivated a community of practice for sustainable urban freight in Canada. Read more about our 2021 successes in our Impact Report.

The Pembina Institute supports the Government of Canada’s efforts to engage, coordinate, and collaborate with relevant actors to operationalize its global commitment to enable the full transition to zero-emission (ZE) medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) by 2040, and to achieve net-zero by 2050.