Economic growth not threatened by current carbon pricing: experts

'If we start pursuing more ambitious emission-reduction targets, then we start having a potential impact on economic growth,' says Nic Rivers from the University of Ottawa.

While it's unclear what federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna might do in terms of pricing carbon, the approaches currently being applied by different provinces are not see as being a threat to economic growth.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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March 21, 2016

The approach of various provinces in pricing carbon will likely not have a significant effect on economic growth in the short term because current incentives are so modest, according to some sector observers.

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