My career as both a policy researcher and as a professor has been focused on issues around innovation, trade, and regional economic development. This makes a think-tank with an environmental focus the perfect spot for continuing this work.
The global electric vehicle (EV) market continues to power up, with potential global sales of 11 million in 2025. The two case studies described in this blog illustrate examples of policy stickiness and policy ambition.
This paper examines the complexities of designing policies that can keep Earth within the biophysical limits favourable to human life.
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.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, University of Alberta
SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019
The transition to a low-carbon economy will require changes at every level of society, from investment in clean innovation and the widespread deployment of resulting green technologies, to behaviour changes and new environmental policies.
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.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Smart Prosperity Institute agree on this: we are in the early stages of a major economic transition to a competitive, low-carbon economy - and with smart policy design, Canadian businesses can lead the transition.
SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019
How Finland and Canada are Moving Towards a Sustainable, Profitable, Low-waste Future
Strategies for Carbon Pricing Success
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.
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.
Presentations from the October 2018 Symposium on natural capital and circular economy are now available.
The moment is right to discuss the costs of environmental regulations. We believe it is critical to look retroactively at positive and negative regulatory impacts, to inform our national conversation as well as smart policy design.
Session notes from the October 2018 Symposium on natural capital and circular economy are now available.
There is a $26 trillion opportunity to be had in clean growth and the right kind of regulations could help Canadian businesses grab a big share of it.
While some jurisdictions are backsliding on climate policy ambition, others are continuing their efforts to build a low-carbon, resource efficient economy for the 21st century.
Today, the British Columbia government released their CleanBC climate plan. The plan charts out a path to achieve the province’s ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 2007 levels by 2030.
