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Carbon Pricing in Canada: Oct 23 Announcement on Rebates and Costs – Following the Money

Today the government announced how and to whom its federal carbon pricing system will apply across Canada, and how revenue collected through the carbon fuel charge will be distributed.


Mike Moffatt

Executive in Residence


Insights and Reactions from the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of Global Warming of 1.5 °C

The findings of the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C remind readers that climate change is not a distant uncertain reality that future generations will deal with, but rather that it is happening here and now within present lifetimes.


Smart Prosperity Graduate Student Travel Awards | Closed

The 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.


Smart Prosperity Graduate Student Travel Awards

Are you a graduate student conducting environment-economy research? Looking for funding to present your research at a (virtual) conference? Consider applying for a Smart Prosperity Graduate Student Travel Award


Student Blog: Promoting Smartphone Durability

Developing a reproducible approach to enhancing the durability of products with high rates of innovation will become increasingly important as Canada transitions towards a circular economy.


Climate change legislation or litigation: Juliana v. United States

Climate change litigation is on the rise, and the judicial systems of many countries will likely be fielding an increasing number of climate change related cases in the years ahead.


Connor Cosma

SPI Summer Student, 2018


Diying Wu

SPI Work-Study Student, 2018-2019


Student Blog: The Durability of Electronics

Product durability is a key aspect of achieving a circular economy. Lengthening a product’s useful life decreases overall resource use, waste, and can save consumers money by minimizing the rate of product replacement.


Student Blog: Achieving Gender Parity in Canada’s Green Economy – What Stands in Our Way?

Why has achieving gender parity in the existing brown and emerging green economies been, as of now, relatively unsuccessful?


Technical Design of the Federal Output Based Pricing System

As of January 1st, 2019, the federal carbon pricing system will add an additional levy to fossil fuels, based on their carbon dioxide equivalent content (CO2e) within any province or territory that doesn’t have their own comparable carbon pricing system in place.


Justine Beaulé

SPI Summer Student, 2018


Student Blog: (Don’t) get off my land--Involving private landowners in species at risk conservation

One of the key ways to ease the effect of habitat loss is by encouraging private landowners to become partners in species conservation.


Michal Miedzinski

Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)


Municipal Natural Assets Initiative | Results from the First National Cohort: Decision-Maker Summary

MNAI has developed a methodology to help local governments identify, value and manage natural assets. This decision-maker summary provides a high-level overview of each pilot project and their key findings.


Natural assets are cost effective, resilient & a key component of sustainable service delivery

Natural assets provide many of the same services to communities as engineered assets but are generally not accounted for and/or are undervalued in asset management practices.


SPI's Scott McFatridge presents at the 2018 North American Congress for Conservation Biology

Scott McFatridge will present on "the potential of permitting, offsets and compensatory measures for achieving species conservation under Canada’s Species at Risk Act"


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