British Columbia’s carbon pricing has led to cleaner air: study
- Media Manager
- Dec 5, 2023
- 1 min read
Global News
Written By: Adrien Jean
Published: December 5th, 2023
As Canadian politicians continue an intense debate over emissions policies, a new study has found that the country’s carbon pricing scheme in British Columbia has a health benefit: Air in the Pacific province is now cleaner to breathe.
British Columbia (BC) introduced a carbon tax in 2008.
By 2018, “for every household in the BC metropolitan areas – after the carbon tax (was introduced) – we have a five per cent to 11 per cent reduction in local air pollution,” said Lorenzo Sileci, the author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics.
