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)
Working Paper
This paper investigates the employment impacts of British Columbia’s revenue-neutral carbon tax.
Report
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.
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Network's Research
April 2019
List of published work, including both peer-reviewed and non-peer from researchers that belong to our Research Network
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.
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.
Research Paper
January 2019
This paper examines the complexities of designing policies that can keep Earth within the biophysical limits favourable to human life.
Multimedia
December 2018
We consistently overestimate the costs and underestimate the benefits of environmental regulations. In fact, costs of environmental regulations are often overestimated by at least double, and sometimes by a factor of 10 or more.
This brief offers insights on strategies for building greater political support for carbon pricing, based on previous experiences with successful programs in the U.S. and abroad.
