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
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021
Associate Professor of Business at the University of Alberta School of Business and Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Almost every Canadian has experienced the perils of vehicle ownership in subzero winter weather. Besides shoveling snow and scraping ice, winter-related mechanical issues include frozen fuel-lines, or thickening motor oil damaging or wearing on the engine.
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
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.
