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Canada 150 Research Chair, 50 international experts, and $10M in funding: meet our new research network!

Canada 150 Research Chair, 50 international experts, and $10M in funding: meet our new research network!

$10M in new funding, including a new Canada 150 Research Chair, helps University of Ottawa attract global experts in the environment and economy.

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Guest Blog: Achieving Gender Parity in Canada’s Green Economy – What Stands in Our Way?

Guest Blog: Achieving Gender Parity in Canada’s Green Economy – What Stands in Our Way?

Why has achieving gender parity in the existing brown and emerging green economies been, as of now, relatively unsuccessful?

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Technical Design of the Federal Output Based Pricing System

Technical Design of the Federal Output Based Pricing System

As of January 1st, 2019, the federal carbon pricing system will add an additional levy to fossil fuels, based on their carbon dioxide equivalent content (CO2e) within any province or territory that doesn’t have their own comparable carbon pricing system in place.

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Guest Blog: (Don’t) get off my land--Involving private landowners in species at risk conservation

Guest Blog: (Don’t) get off my land--Involving private landowners in species at risk conservation

One of the key ways to ease the effect of habitat loss is by encouraging private landowners to become partners in species conservation.

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Municipal Natural Assets Initiative | Results from the First National Cohort: Decision-Maker Summary

Municipal Natural Assets Initiative | Results from the First National Cohort: Decision-Maker Summary

MNAI has developed a methodology to help local governments identify, value and manage natural assets. This decision-maker summary provides a high-level overview of each pilot project and their key findings.

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Natural assets are cost effective, resilient & a key component of sustainable service delivery

Natural assets are cost effective, resilient & a key component of sustainable service delivery

Natural assets provide many of the same services to communities as engineered assets but are generally not accounted for and/or are undervalued in asset management practices.

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Nature conservation on private land is essential but undersupplied – economic tools can help

Nature conservation on private land is essential but undersupplied – economic tools can help

Rewarding nature conservation on private land provides policymakers with a golden opportunity to enhance nature’s services for the public benefit while ensuring viable livelihoods for private landowners.

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Economic Tools for Increasing Nature Conservation on Private Land

Economic Tools for Increasing Nature Conservation on Private Land

This brief explores policy tools that can help protect ecosystem services for public benefit while ensuring viable livelihoods for private landowners.

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Identifying Barriers and Opportunities within the Professional Planning Practice in Ontario

Identifying Barriers and Opportunities within the Professional Planning Practice in Ontario

This report identifies the top five barriers and opportunities in professional planning practice in Ontario that stand to affect the refinement, replication, and scaling up of municipal natural asset management projects.


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