The Smart Prosperity Research Network supports policy-relevant research focused on ways to incentivize the Canadian financial sector to invest in Canada’s low-carbon transition and in the conservation of nature and biodiversity.
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.
The role of the financial sector in the low-carbon transition
- Heterogeneous investors, scale economies and the commercialisation of innovative renewable energy technologies
- Strategies and Policies for Integrating the Canadian Financial Sector into Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
- Insurance in a changing climate: Clarifying the sector’s role in supporting sustainable behaviour
- Canadian Financial Sector Stability & Climate Change - Solutions Towards a Low-Carbon & Climate Resilient Transition
Conservation finance
- A new tool for scaling investment in nature-based solutions - the “made in Canada” conservation impact bond
- Scaling conservation finance in Canada: The need for collaborative action to deliver for nature and the economy
- We Need to Invest in Biodiversity – for Nature, Society and the Economy
- Wetland conservation economics - moving beyond rhetoric
Green bonds
- Catalyzing the green bond market in a post-pandemic world
- Leaving No One Behind - Prospects for Transition Bonds and Pathways
- Lessons for Canada from Emerging Green Bond Markets
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