New consultations on reducing emissions from Canada’s largest and fastest growing source of emissions are to put an ETS and carbon pricing on the table.
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was not specifically authorised by Congress to reduce carbon emissions when it was set up in 1970, in blow to environmental action.
The United States must meet its international obligations on climate change and do more than "shout slogans", China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said following a US Supreme Court ruling limiting Washington's ability to cut power sector emissions.