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Innovation Blog 5 – What will it take? More voices add to the conversation

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SP Research Associate Adam Baylin-Stern describes his graduate research and how he went from an SP funded student to an SP employee.

On Wednesday, June 3, Sustainable Prosperity had the honour of hosting Kristin Halvorsen, former Norwegian minister of finance and current director of CICERO, a Norwegian climate policy think-tank. Halvorsen discussed the workings of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, as well as Norway’s 25 years of experience with a carbon tax.

Clean innovation will be increasingly critical to Canada's economic and environmental well-being in a changing world. On March 31, 2015, Sustainable Prosperity and partners brought together Canadian and global experts from academia, industry, government, and NGOs to discuss how Canada can accelerate the pace of clean innovation across all parts of the economy, with a particular focus on the key role that governments can play — through smart policy, investment, spending, etc.

While Session 1 raised the issue of faltering innovation in Canada, Session 2 speakers (Dr. Richard Newell, Duke University; Dr. Richard Hawkins, University of Calgary; Dr. Nick Johnstone, OECD Structural Policy Division; and Geoff McCarney, PhD candidate at Columbia University and Sustainable Prosperity’s Research Director) shed light on why this has occurred and how it can be corrected by examining the links between public policy and clean innovation.

On June 4th, Sustainable Prosperity, in partnership with the French, Norwegian and German Embassies, brought together two of the most interesting panels in our history – including former Quebec Premier, the Hon. Jean Charest; former Finance Minister of Norway, Kristin Halvorsen; and former Environment Minister of France, Brice Lalonde - to talk about politics, climate change and carbon pricing .

Clean innovation will be increasingly critical to Canada's economic and environmental well-being in a changing world. On March 31, 2015, Sustainable Prosperity and partners brought together Canadian and global experts from academia, industry, government, and NGOs to discuss how Canada can accelerate the pace of clean innovation across all parts of the economy, with a particular focus on the key role that governments can play — through smart policy, investment, spending, etc.

Innovation Blog 5 – What will it take? More voices add to the conversation

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