{
    "name": "AI Policy Radar",
    "publisher": "Green Diplomat",
    "description": "Climate laws and carbon-pricing instruments classified by legal stage; every record cites the document it was checked against and the date of that check.",
    "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "citation": "Green Diplomat (2026). AI Policy Radar: a verified tracker of climate laws by legal stage. https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/ (accessed 6 October 2026).",
    "generated": "2026-10-06T03:42:11+00:00",
    "count": 1,
    "fields": {
        "record_id": "Stable identifier of the record (also the end of its web address).",
        "jurisdiction": "Country or sub-national jurisdiction that adopted the instrument.",
        "iso3": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country.",
        "instrument_type": "Emissions trading system, carbon tax, framework law, target law, crediting mechanism, energy-transition law, disclosure / MRV rule.",
        "legal_stage": "In force · Enacted, not yet in force · In rulemaking · Proposed / announced · No binding instrument.",
        "stage_date": "Date the instrument reached its current stage (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD, as precise as the source allows).",
        "legal_reference": "Act, decree or gazette reference.",
        "coverage": "Sectors, entities or share of emissions covered, as stated by the source.",
        "what_to_watch": "The next decision, deadline or review named by the source.",
        "source_name": "Publisher of the document the record was checked against.",
        "source_url": "Address of that document.",
        "source_type": "“official” (law, gazette, government or regulator) or “reference” (a recognised compilation such as ICAP).",
        "btr_status": "Indicative status for Biennial Transparency Reports: planned, adopted or implemented (see Standards).",
        "last_verified": "Date the record was last checked against its source.",
        "legal_journey": "Dated milestones (proposed, enacted, rulemaking, in force, later milestone), each with its own source. JSON and journeys.csv only."
    },
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        {
            "record_id": "ca-obps",
            "jurisdiction": "Canada",
            "iso3": "CAN",
            "country": "Canada",
            "instrument_type": "Emissions trading system",
            "legal_stage": "In force",
            "stage_date": "2019",
            "legal_reference": "Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act; Output-Based Pricing System Regulations (SOR/2019-266); Making Life More Affordable for Canadians Act (Bill C-4, Royal Assent 12 Mar 2026)",
            "coverage": "Industrial facilities emitting 50,000 tCO2e or more a year (opt-in from 10,000); applied in Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Yukon and Nunavut as of 2025",
            "summary": "Canada's federal OBPS is the industrial carbon pricing system under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, applying where provinces and territories do not run their own systems. The consumer fuel charge was set to zero on 1 April 2025 and was removed from federal legislation by Bill C-4 (Royal Assent 12 March 2026), leaving industrial pricing as the federal backstop.",
            "what_to_watch": "The updated federal benchmark that the government said it would publish later in 2026, consultation on amendments to the OBPS Regulations, and the Canada–Alberta implementation agreement of 15 May 2026, which recognises Alberta's TIER price trajectory as matching the federal one.",
            "source_name": "International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP)",
            "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/canada-federal-output-based-pricing-system",
            "source_type": "reference",
            "btr_status": "implemented",
            "last_verified": "2026-10-04",
            "region": "Americas",
            "topics": [
                "Carbon Markets",
                "Carbon Pricing"
            ],
            "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/ca-obps/",
            "legal_journey": [
                {
                    "date": "2018-06-21",
                    "milestone": "enacted",
                    "event": "Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act receives Royal Assent",
                    "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/G-11.55/page-1.html"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2019",
                    "milestone": "in-force",
                    "event": "Federal Output-Based Pricing System begins applying to large industrial emitters",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/canada-federal-output-based-pricing-system"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2019-06-28",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Output-Based Pricing System Regulations registered (SOR/2019-266)",
                    "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2019-266/page-1.html"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2025-04-01",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Federal fuel charge set to zero; OBPS becomes the only federal backstop",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/canada-federal-output-based-pricing-system"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2026-03-12",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Bill C-4 receives Royal Assent, removing the consumer fuel charge from law",
                    "source_url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/03/legislation-to-make-life-more-affordable-receives-royal-assent.html"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2026-05-19",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "New industrial carbon price path published: CAD 95 in 2026 to CAD 140 by 2040",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/news/canada-publishes-new-carbon-price-trajectory"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}