OTTAWA — Alberta is defending new regulatory changes that policy experts say will weaken a major climate policy the province pledged to strengthen just last week in a controversial accord with the federal government.

The changes, issued Wednesday by cabinet order , involve the province’s industrial carbon pricing system, a key part of the recent Canada-Alberta memorandum of understanding. That agreement saw Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government support a possible new oil pipeline through northern British Columbia — so long as a carbon capture megaproject in Alberta goes forward — and cancel, suspend and water down national climate policies that apply to the fossil fuel-rich province.

The two governments also agreed to negotiate a way by April 1 to strengthen Alberta’s industr

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