Bloomberg is trying to go around the Trump administration, which continues to deny climate change while rolling back clean-energy policies.

Ottawa is still negotiating with provinces that have coal plants on how they will be phased out and whether they will be allowed to keep operating any of them by reducing equivalent emissions elsewhere.

The man who led Alberta's climate change plan panel says it's part of a changing dialogue globally on greenhouse gas policy, and pointed to the Paris climate accord and a Canada-U.S. agreement on methane reductions.