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Climate change legislation or litigation: Juliana v. United States

Sep 05, 2018

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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Call for Chairs in Environment & Economy and Environmental Policy at the University of Ottawa

Aug 23, 2018

Deadline to apply extended to September 12, 2018

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Student Blog: The Durability of Electronics

Aug 21, 2018

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

Aug 09, 2018

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

Aug 08, 2018

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

Jul 30, 2018

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

Jul 25, 2018

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

Jul 05, 2018

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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Gender and the Clean Economy: Moving beyond “just add women and stir”

May 16, 2018

While there is a lot of attention being paid in Canada to clean technologies and financing, there is a lack of emphasis being placed on equity and social justice implications of the transition to a cleaner economy.

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The proof points: Carbon pricing, clean innovation & competitiveness

May 16, 2018

Smart Prosperity Institute's Stewart Elgie appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to discuss Part 5 of Bill C-74. Translation: federal carbon pricing legislation.

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Guest Blog: BC’s Carbon Tax: Addressing issues of inequity

May 14, 2018

Equitable revenue recycling for marginalized or vulnerable populations ensures BC’s carbon tax works not only towards sustainability goals but also to mitigate inequities as carbon prices rise over time.

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Household Waste and Climate Change

Apr 18, 2018

Reducing household waste in Canada has the potential to reduce direct and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, and is an important step towards meeting our climate change commitments.

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

Mar 29, 2018

$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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Budget 2018: Key takeaways for a stronger, cleaner economy

Feb 28, 2018

The Federal Budget was tabled on February 27, 2018 and includes new funding for nature conservation and clean innovation. Smart Prosperity Institute breaks it down to see how Budget 2018 can help build a stronger, cleaner economy.

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Guest Blog: Why the Chinese ban on imported recyclables could be good for Canada, eventually

Feb 12, 2018

The Chinese government’s crackdown on imported recyclables is creating a mess for waste exporting countries like Canada.

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Private lands are key for a comprehensive and collaborative municipal natural asset management strategy

Feb 07, 2018

Local governments are improving how they identify, value, and manage their natural assets by incorporating them into financial and asset management planning decisions. But what about the portions of natural assets not owned or managed by local governments?

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Why we need to get species at risk policy right

Feb 02, 2018

Species at risk populations continue to decline – the status quo simply isn’t helping them enough. But over time, the right mix of economic incentives and policy tools just might be able to turn things around.

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