The Smart Prosperity Research Network supports research that informs carbon policy design and governance, unpacks the political economy of carbon pricing in Canada, and assess the impacts and benefits of existing carbon pricing on the Canadian economy, communities, and citizens.
The research highlighted on this page stems from academic research projects selected by an independent Research Network Steering Committee and funded by the Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network (EEPRN) and the Greening Growth Partnership.
Click on the titles below to access working papers, blogs, and analyses from Smart Prosperity Research Network-funded projects completed since 2018. Scroll down to find recent research on other topics.
Carbon pricing, rebates and border adjustments
- Avoiding Leakage from Nature-Based Offsets by Design
- How do B.C. households spend carbon tax rebates?
- Carbon-tax rebates - the untold story
- Is Carbon Pricing Progressive or Regressive? It Depends How Governments Use the Revenue
- Border Carbon Adjustments in Support of Domestic Climate Policies: Explaining the Gap Between Theory and Practice
- Border Carbon Adjustments – Viable Option or Pipe Dream?
- Do Carbon Taxes Kill Jobs? New Evidence of “Job Shifting”
- BC’s Carbon Tax: Addressing issues of inequity
Political economy
- Do politicians talk differently about carbon pricing policies than regulatory policies? Maybe not.
- Negative policy feedbacks may hold New Brunswick back from decarbonizing its electricity sector
- Innovation on Climate-related Risk Communication in Canada
- What Does the Biden Administration Mean for Global Climate Action?
- The Low-Carbon Policy Ecosystem: Leaving Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Behind
- The threat of populism to climate policy? Lessons from Ontario
- Understanding policy shifts - the case of climate policy in Ontario
- Stability in Climate Policy
Co-benefits
- Green is the new grey: Natural infrastructure provides big value with multiple climate, environmental and social benefits
- Canada needs simpler tools for evaluating the health impacts of low-carbon infrastructure
- Clean growth and climate action can be great for human health
- Estimating the impact of climate change on the Canadian economy
Manufacturing
- Environmental Taxes and Productivity: Lessons from Canadian Manufacturing
- The Technique Effect and Canada's Manufacturing Clean-Up
- Metal Extraction in a Low-Carbon Economy: Projected Trends in Metal Demand and Policy Options for Demand Reduction
Governance
- Strengthening Canada’s Governance Foundation for Decarbonization
- Doing Climate Policy Differently – From the Ground Up
- Thinking beyond Traditional Environmental Regulation - Innovative Policy Tools for Achieving Local Sustainability and Low-Carbon Transition
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