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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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Smart Prosperity Graduate Student Travel Awards

Smart Prosperity Graduate Student Travel Awards

The Travel Award Contest is now open! Deadline for this round of applications is October 7th.

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Research Funding Opportunity

Research Funding Opportunity

The Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network (EEPRN) is seeking proposals for academic research projects.

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Guest Blog: Promoting Smartphone Durability

Guest Blog: Promoting Smartphone Durability

Developing a reproducible approach to enhancing the durability of products with high rates of innovation will become increasingly important as Canada transitions towards a circular economy.

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Climate change legislation or litigation: Juliana v. United States

Climate change legislation or litigation: Juliana v. United States

Climate change litigation is on the rise, and the judicial systems of many countries will likely be fielding an increasing number of climate change related cases in the years ahead.

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Guest Blog: The Durability of Electronics

Guest Blog: The Durability of Electronics

Product durability is a key aspect of achieving a circular economy. Lengthening a product’s useful life decreases overall resource use, waste, and can save consumers money by minimizing the rate of product replacement.

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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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