Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
2016 marks the 5th edition of the Climate Bonds Initiative’s State of the Market report.
Exploring and identifying the health benefits of investing in nature, the clean economy and low-carbon infrastructure
Defining the opportunity, evaluating Canada's performance, and investigating policies to ramp it up!
Leaders from business, think tanks, labour, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and NGOs harnessing #NewThinking for a stronger, cleaner economy.
PLACE works with government, industry, & civil society groups to understand the problems that hold back local clean growth & more livable communities within regions in Canada, while providing practical solutions.
Supporting a thriving and skilled Canadian workforce
Cutting-edge research to scale sustainable finance in Canada
Building off of the insights shared at the North American Climate Policy Forum, this report reviews opportunities and challenges for climate change policy harmonization in North America.
This report provides Canadian local governments with an introduction to stormwater user fees and to the various other tools that they can implement to take an integrated approach to better urban stormwater management through the use of green infrastructure.
Sustainable Prosperity and the Climate Bonds Initiative prepared a joint submission to the Government of Canada's "Let's Talk Climate" consultation process, and to the co-chairs of the federal-provincial-territorial working groups formed under the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
In this paper, we look at the opportunities to make greater use of price-based policy tools, particularly at the local level, to help address environmental problems and provide revenue that municipalities need to support their budgetary and environmental objectives.
This report grapples with the question of how to get the institutions right to implement effective clean innovation policy by drawing on lessons from the academic literature and four case studies.
This policy brief discusses critical public sector institutional design factors for policymakers to consider.
This report undertakes a review of existing knowledge within Canada and internationally to answer three questions.
Sustainable Prosperity's comments on the draft FSDS are provided from the perspective of a wide array of academics, policy experts, business, labour, and environmental leaders.
This background paper is meant to frame the current policy context as a base of discussion for all participants in the North American Climate Policy Forum.
The 4th Canadian PhD and Early Career Workshop in Environmental Economics — supported by Sustainable Prosperity — was hosted at the University of Ottawa from June 1st to June 2nd. This annual workshop brings together PhD students and early career researchers working on topics in Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Economy of Climate Change, Energy Economics, and other related disciplines.
