Today marks the release of a report looking at the economic benefits that accompany smart community energy planning.
Sara recently joined Smart Prosperity Institute as the Senior Research Associate for Sustainable Communities. Her work is focused on green economy policies that will help municipalities address environmental concerns while creating new sources of revenue.
Cities are at the core of many of the measures to fight climate change. They are expanding at an unprecedented rate as 1.4 million people move to urban areas each week, and it is projected that 60% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030.
I am optimistic that this year we will see major progress on climate action in Canada.
2007-2008 was an exciting time to be working on climate policy in British Columbia.
This research note is based on a paper Jobs and Climate Policy: Evidence from British Columbia’s Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax written by Akio Yamazaki, PhD Candidate, University of Calgary.
As world leaders gather in Paris to discuss climate change, we highlight some of our top reports, policy briefs and issue summaries on how Canada is doing in our transition to a low-carbon economy – and what more we can do.
Recently, Sustainable Prosperity in partnership with Dr. Amelia Clarke from the University of Waterloo published the Sustainable Alignment Manual (SAM).
Environmental regulations – often referred to as ‘green tape’ – are commonly portrayed as pitting regulator against regulatee, business against government, environmentalists against industry groups, environment against economy. But the latest evidence shows that green tape does not polarize.
The big environmental story coming out of Ontario this year is the government’s decision to introduce a cap-and-trade system in the province. This province-wide environmental market will cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, indirectly putting a price on carbon emissions and sending a signal for business to use cleaner energy and processes.
The German Embassy in Canada together with Sustainable Prosperity and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) hosted a discussion "Ahead of Paris: Towards a New Global Climate Deal". The keynote speaker was Klaus Töpfer, former UNEP Executive Director and German Environment Minister.
