Regulations

On July 6, 2022, the Canadian government’s Department of the Environment (Environment Canada) published the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR). The annual reduction requirements for carbon intensity (CI) under the CFR came into force on July 1, 2023.

This requires liquid fossil fuel (gasoline and diesel) suppliers to gradually reduce the CI – or the amount of pollution – from the fuels they produce and sell for use in Canada over time, leading to a decrease of approximately 15% (below 2016 levels) in the CI of gasoline and diesel used in Canada by 2030. This is equivalent to delivering up to 26 million tonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emis