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鈥淕rasslands are particularly valuable because they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and sink it into the soil where it's going to be there for a long time. There's hardly anything better than grasslands as a sink for carbon,鈥� said Mark Mark Boyce, a professor of ecology at the University of Alberta.

The stakes for any changes are high, because if adjustments aren鈥檛 made appropriately, the sensitive carbon market could be pushed 鈥渙ut of whack鈥� from 2023 to 2030.

Carbon market 'sort of a simple extension' of Alberta's years of practice with the creation and regulation of its oil and gas industry

Trees trap two to three times more carbon than crops

鈥淭here's no sort of co-ordinated national approach or national standards, laws, regulations,鈥� said Ryan Ness, director of adaptation at the Canadian Climate Institute.

鈥淲e have infrastructure already in place,鈥� said Amit Kumar, professor at the University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates Associate industrial research chair in energy and environmental systems engineering.

The long-haul trucking industry is currently being examined聽as the future of hydrogen, while electric vehicles are being pegged for personal use.

Most of the hydrogen in the province is produced from natural gas and the process emits C02, which is currently聽released聽into the atmosphere.

鈥淭he hydrogen sector is moving so fast, it鈥檚 almost hard to believe where we鈥檝e come in just the last couple of years,鈥� Premier Jason Kenney said at a hydrogen convention on Tuesday.