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Student Blog: Border Carbon Adjustments – Viable Option or Pipe Dream?

Oct 02, 2019

Student Blog: Border Carbon Adjustments – Viable Option or Pipe Dream?

A growing number of experts have recommended border carbon adjustments to support domestic climate policies. However, while these policy tools offer the promise of environmental, economic and political benefits, most governments do not apply them.


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Guest Blog: Canadian Financial Sector Stability & Climate Change - Solutions Towards a Low-Carbon & Climate Resilient Transition

Guest Blog: Canadian Financial Sector Stability & Climate Change - Solutions Towards a Low-Carbon & Climate Resilient Transition

Sep 09, 2019

As climate change impacts continue to create havoc around the world in the form of extreme weather changes, the global financial sector is starting to pay attention to what this means for financial stability and future risks.

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Student Blog: Three Lessons for Quebec's Natural Gas Market

Student Blog: Three Lessons for Quebec's Natural Gas Market

Aug 28, 2019

Lessons for research on Quebec's natural gas market from the 2019 Summer School on Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy.

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IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land – Quick List of Policy Solutions for Canada

IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land – Quick List of Policy Solutions for Canada

Aug 08, 2019

The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land reminds us that the land-sector must be increasingly recognized as a decisive part of our transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Student Blog: The Blue Economy and The Need for Open IP

Student Blog: The Blue Economy and The Need for Open IP

Aug 07, 2019

The blue economy emphasizes the importance of the world's waters, and the impacts that they have on multiple areas within the global economy.

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Canada and carbon pricing: Successes, failures, and tremendous provincial diversity

Canada and carbon pricing: Successes, failures, and tremendous provincial diversity

Jul 24, 2019

Smart Prosperity Institute and its SSHRC-supported Greening Growth Partnership project have helped launch important new work on the political economy of carbon pricing policies in Canada.

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Growing Clean: How Investment in Low-Carbon Technology will Double by 2030

Growing Clean: How Investment in Low-Carbon Technology will Double by 2030

Jun 21, 2019

Our recent analysis of the clean growth investment opportunity finds that Canadian demand for low-carbon technologies will double through 2030 compared to today’s levels.

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Call for Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs

Call for Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs

Jun 20, 2019

Apply now to our call for two Fulbright visiting research chairs, in Environment & Economy and Environmental Policy at the University of Ottawa. The deadline to apply is September 16th, 2019.

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Announcement of Funding for New Innovative Research

Announcement of Funding for New Innovative Research

Jun 18, 2019

The projects funded through the Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network (EEPRN) for 2018-2019 have been announced.

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Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance Releases Final Report

Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance Releases Final Report

Jun 18, 2019

Last Friday, Canada’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance delivered their final report, outlining the opportunity, challenges, and key next steps for Canada to leverage its strong financial sector to accelerate clean growth.

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Steady as She Goes: Canada’s GHG Progress to the 2030 Paris Commitment

Steady as She Goes: Canada’s GHG Progress to the 2030 Paris Commitment

Jun 14, 2019

As the politicization over climate policy rises with the upcoming election, there is an increasing need for a sound information base to unpack Canada’s progress towards its greenhouse gas (GHG) target.

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Q&A with SPI’s Dr. Kai Chan, Lead Co-Author of Landmark U.N. Biodiversity Report

Q&A with SPI’s Dr. Kai Chan, Lead Co-Author of Landmark U.N. Biodiversity Report

Jun 05, 2019

Visiting SPI scholar Dr. Kai Chan helped write the recently-launched landmark U.N. Biodiversity Report and negotiated its release in Paris.

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Funding for Municipal Natural Asset Management

Funding for Municipal Natural Asset Management

May 28, 2019

Evidence of the value of municipal natural asset management from a growing number of Canadian municipalities provides a strong rationale to fund natural assets and their management.

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What is Needed to Build a Successful Green New Deal in Canada

What is Needed to Build a Successful Green New Deal in Canada

May 13, 2019

A successful GND movement across Canada will need to attract good ideas from across the political spectrum, acknowledge ambitious political action from wherever it emerges, push for further momentum on top of these wins and hold politicians accountable for inaction.

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The Time is Right for New Thinking on Nature Conservation

The Time is Right for New Thinking on Nature Conservation

Apr 18, 2019

We have before us an opportune moment to reflect on new approaches to conservation in Canada.

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Ontario Budget: Light on ambition, light on details

Ontario Budget: Light on ambition, light on details

Apr 11, 2019

This budget is light on details, and it is also light on ambition for meeting the environmental challenges we face and seizing the opportunities that a clean economy provides.

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Tax Incentives for Clean Growth: Balancing sticks with carrots

Tax Incentives for Clean Growth: Balancing sticks with carrots

Apr 09, 2019

Canada has enormous potential to be a global leader in the clean economy. Targeted tax incentives can be the carrots that help address existing barriers and jump-start Canada’s clean innovation ecosystem to drive clean growth.

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Canada in a Changing Climate

Canada in a Changing Climate

Apr 02, 2019

Today’s release of Canada’s Changing Climate Report answers the questions: How has Canada’s climate changed to date? …Why?... And what changes are projected in the future?

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Guest Blog: Do Carbon Taxes Kill Jobs? New Evidence of “Job Shifting”

Guest Blog: Do Carbon Taxes Kill Jobs? New Evidence of “Job Shifting”

Mar 26, 2019

How do carbon taxes impact jobs? A recent Smart Prosperity Institute Clean Economy Working Paper explores the impact of BC’s carbon tax on employment.

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Quick Take from the Lock-Up at Budget 2019

Quick Take from the Lock-Up at Budget 2019

Mar 19, 2019

While Budget 2019 will likely be remembered as a “Skills Budget” or “Pharmacare Budget”, there are a number of new initiatives promoting clean economic growth.

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The Trouble With Non-Electric Vehicles: Winter

The Trouble With Non-Electric Vehicles: Winter

Mar 05, 2019

Almost every Canadian has experienced the perils of vehicle ownership in subzero winter weather. Besides shoveling snow and scraping ice, winter-related mechanical issues include frozen fuel-lines, or thickening motor oil damaging or wearing on the engine.
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