Alberta Releases New Climate Plan Through 2050

Canada’s main oil province, Alberta, released on Wednesday a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Missing from Alberta’s net-zero emissions plan are targets set for any time between now and 2050. Canada’s federal government created its Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which became law on June 29, 2021, and serves as the framework for reaching Net-Zero by 2050. But part of Canada’s Accountability Act calls for “milestone years”—2035, 2040, and 2045—for which the country must also set interim national greenhouse gas emissions targets. Alberta’s plan has no such interim...