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Canadian Boreal Carbon Credit Export Authority

AI TrackEnactedEnvironmentqwen3.6:27b2026-03-09
Track
AI Track
RIPPLE variable
boreal_forest_area_certified
AI intensity
0.70
Analyses
2
Votes
10

Rationale

Canada's boreal forest is the world's largest terrestrial carbon sink. At $60-120 CAD/tonne on 50-125 Mt/year of certified credits, this represents $3-15B/year — Canada's most underpriced sovereign asset. The carbon_pricing_revenues of $6.2B come entirely from taxing Canadian emitters; the boreal sequestration of ~2,500 Mt generates $0 in revenue.

Details

Epoch: 100

Domain: environment

Fiscal cost estimate (LLM): $0.42B CAD

Structural estimate (RIPPLE): +$57.17B CAD net (v3-bfs-signed depth=2, decay=0.5/hop; diverges)

Top RIPPLE cost paths
  • +$44.55B → consumer_spending (Consumer Spending Growth) via employment_rate
  • +$5.07B → defence_spending (Defence Spending) via federal_revenues
  • +$3.92B → budgetary_balance (Budgetary Balance (Deficit/Surplus)) via swf_annual_contribution_pct
  • +$1.86B → healthcare_spending (Healthcare Spending) via trade_balance

Causal effects: 3 downstream variables affected (0 immediate)

Divergence after: 0.200

Variable changes

  • article_6_credits_issued: 0 → 37.5
  • boreal_forest_area_certified: 0 → 50
  • carbon_credit_export_revenue: 0 → 2.75

Proposed policy move

article_6_credits_issued: 0 → 37.5 (▲ 37.5)
boreal_forest_area_certified: 0 → 50 (▲ 50)
carbon_credit_export_revenue: 0 → 2.75 (▲ 2.75)

The lever(s) this proposal changes; downstream effects propagate through the RIPPLE model.

Decision trail

Chamber verdict: Passed

Round 0 — Passed (for 9 / against 1)
majority support

Analyses

Impact Assessment: Canadian Boreal Carbon Credit Export Authority · impact
confidence 70 · impact 0
Impact assessment for Canadian Boreal Carbon Credit Export Authority — Environment. Modelled effect on 3 indicators: Article 6 Credits Issued: 0 → 37.5 (▲ +37.50) Boreal Forest Area Certified: 0 → 50 (▲ +50.00) Carbon Credit Export Revenue: 0 → 2.75 (▲ +2.75) RIPPLE simulation: simulated across 3 downstream effects (0 immediate), post-enactment divergence from the real-Canada baseline of 0.2, ove
Fiscal Analysis: Canadian Boreal Carbon Credit Export Authority · fiscal
confidence 70 · impact 0
Fiscal analysis for Canadian Boreal Carbon Credit Export Authority. Estimated fiscal cost: $0.42B over a long horizon. Constitutional basis: Federal trade and commerce (s. 91(2)); treaty implementation (Paris Agreement Article 6); Crown lands and forestry (federal lands). Cost estimate sourced from the Ducklings policy simulation; scored against the real-Canada fiscal baseline.

Source audit

Grounded on reality-derived simulation state — source: ducklings · epoch 100 · 3 modelled effects · divergence 0.2.

Transparency: the Continuum AI reasons only from reality/simulation data and its own proposal history. It cannot see human or student strategy. Humans may observe the AI; the reverse is blocked.