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.
A successful GND movement across Canada will need to attract good ideas from across the political spectrum, acknowledge ambitious political action from wherever it emerges, push for further momentum on top of these wins and hold politicians accountable for inaction.
On Friday, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is constitutionally valid. Stewart Elgie will speak about the Saskatchewan Court Decision on the Federal Carbon Pricing Law.
Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI) offers travel awards for conference attendance on a competitive basis to current graduate students conducting environment-economy research of policy relevance for Canada.
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.
We have before us an opportune moment to reflect on new approaches to conservation in Canada.
Smart Prosperity Institute provides comments on the draft 2019-2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy.
This budget is light on details, and it is also light on ambition for meeting the environmental challenges we face and seizing the opportunities that a clean economy provides.
Canada has enormous potential to be a global leader in the clean economy. Targeted tax incentives can be the carrots that help address existing barriers and jump-start Canada’s clean innovation ecosystem to drive clean growth.
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.
Today’s release of Canada’s Changing Climate Report answers the questions: How has Canada’s climate changed to date? …Why?... And what changes are projected in the future?
Smart Prosperity Institute provides its recommendations in response to the Discussion Paper for the 10th Year Review of Ontario's Endangered Species Act (ESA)
How do carbon taxes impact jobs? A recent Smart Prosperity Institute Clean Economy Working Paper explores the impact of BC’s carbon tax on employment.
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2020
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021
This paper investigates the employment impacts of British Columbia’s revenue-neutral carbon
tax.
While Budget 2019 will likely be remembered as a “Skills Budget” or “Pharmacare Budget”, there are a number of new initiatives promoting clean economic growth.
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, the University of Saskatchewan
Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the University of Saskatchewan
