Accelerating clean innovation can help meet environmental commitments as well as secure competitive economic advantages that grow the economy and create jobs.
Remarks by Director of Policy Michelle Brownlee, sharing findings of Smart Prosperity Institute’s research on clean innovation in Canada.
The EEPRN works to fund and disseminate cutting edge research on economics and environmental policy priorities for Canada.
Sustainable development within governments: approaches, policies and issues
Canada’s transition to a stronger, cleaner, more innovative economy received a substantial boost when Minister of Finance Bill Morneau tabled the 2017 Federal Budget.
A number of Canadian municipalities currently employ stormwater user fees, while others are examining their implementation.
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A well-designed low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) can play an important role in the policy package needed to transition to a low-carbon economy.
Taking steps to change your stormwater management system but running into challenges? The New Solutions for Sustainable Stormwater Management Program can help!
This presentation was given by Sara Jane O'Neill, Senior Research Associate at Smart Prosperity Institute, for a webinar on March 2, 2017.
Struggling with costly infrastructure deficits, the impacts of increasing urbanization, and changing weather patterns, how are today’s local governments going to address the challenges of urban stormwater management?
The Province of Quebec is following Ontario’s lead, issuing its first green bond this month.
Building the circular economy for printed paper and packaging.
Local governments across Canada are starting to look at rainwater through a new lens – as a resource that can be managed and harvested on site as opposed to a waste product that must be removed.
This panel will explore how some businesses are responding to carbon pricing and discuss the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
Fuel use represents a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada, with fuel use in the transportation sector alone accounting for more than a quarter of Canada’s emissions.
There is a growing recognition that direct government involvement is critical to the promotion of clean energy technologies and sustainability transitions. Technologies like the internet, lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles, and wind and solar energy were aided by government policy.
Never heard of a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)? That's okay. Neither have most survey respondents in British Columbia (BC), the only Canadian jurisdiction with one currently in place. Yet when the policy was explained, 90% of respondents supported it.
Good ideas are worth repeating. And the Province of Ontario has found that green bonds are a good idea. On January 26, 2017, Ontario issued its third green bond – it’s largest yet – a reopening of its 2016 bond amounting to $800 million.
