

Climate Policy Tough Love? An assessment of the federal carbon price backstop
Download assessment of federal carbon price backstop here. The federation has normalized around a level of GHG policy effort that is...


Assessing Canadian Carbon Pricing Pathways
Revised draft paper downloadable here. Summary by Clean Prosperity here Canadians for Clean Prosperity[1] asked Deep Decarbonization...


Impact Modelling and Analysis of Ontario’s Proposed Cap and Trade Program
With the permission of Ontario's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, EnviroEconomics, with partners Navius Research and...


Still Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Obligations
Get the English paper here, The French version here, and The English summary presentation here. With the signing and expected...


Canadian Climate Policy could use Mr. Trudeau’s Sunny Ways
There is no doubt that the climate file will be a sticky and messy affair for the new Liberal government. Years of open warfare within...
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A Balanced Canadian Energy Strategy Emerges [finally]
Today at the Council of the Federation, the first ministers agreed to a joint declaration embodied in a new Canadian Energy Strategy. It...


Alberta's Two Step Climate Shuffle
Post published in Globe and Mail June 26, 2015 Alberta has reset its climate policy. Provincial Environment Minister Shannon Phillips...


Low prices and rising global political will are shifting future of the oil sands
Originally printed in the Globe and Mail June 20, 2015 One can hardly blame oil sands investors for discounting the carbon rhetoric that...


Conflating revealed political will with Canada’s new 2030 target
There has been a loud chorus condemning Canada's "weak" INDC. I think many are conflating Canada’s revealed political will to act on...


Another Climate Plan Too Far? Canada Releases its post-2020 GHG Ambition
Today, Canada published its proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction plan for the Paris Conference of the Parties to be held in November...

