Multimedia
May 2019
This webinar explored the impact of climate policy on building in Canada in 2025. Over the next few years, the construction sector is one of the “winners” of carbon pricing, as escalating carbon prices unleash a wave of business and household investment.
Dr. Kai Chan helped write the recently launched U.N. Biodiversity Report, and negotiated its release in Paris. Hear from him firsthand about the report findings on biodiversity loss – and the systemic solutions we need to embrace.
Report
Over the next few years, the construction sector is one of the “winners” of carbon pricing, as escalating carbon prices unleash a wave of business and household investment.
Submission
March 2019
Smart Prosperity Institute provides its recommendations in response to the Discussion Paper for the 10th Year Review of Ontario's Endangered Species Act (ESA)
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Network's Research
April 2019
List of published work, including both peer-reviewed articles and working papers from our network of academics and subject-matter experts from across Canada and around the world.
Smart Prosperity Institute provides comments on the draft 2019-2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy.
Policy Brief
Providing targeted incentives to invest in small cleantech companies represents an opportunity to help Canada’s cleantech sector realize its potential and catalyze a dynamic growing industry.
There is a need to balance ambitious environmental policies with targeted incentives that can help Canadian businesses accelerate the adoption of clean technologies across the economy and boost business competitiveness to compete in a cleaner, more innovative global economy.
Working Paper
This paper investigates the employment impacts of British Columbia’s revenue-neutral carbon tax.
February 2019
The 2018 State of the Market report marks the seventh annual stocktake of green bonds and green finance in Canada, produced in partnership with the Climate Bonds Initiative.
In collaboration with the Insurance Bureau of Canada, and the Co-operators Group Limited, Smart Prosperity is pleased to provide this submission in response to the call from the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance.
A plastics circular economy in Canada would recirculate materials in an environmentally- and financially-sustainable closed loop. It reduces waste and emissions while capturing value.
