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Coordinating Canadian Carbon Pricing Strategies - Level playing field
Feb 10 2016

The Benefits of Coordinating Canadian Carbon Pricing Strategies

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Climate and Energy

As part of our ongoing blog series, we are exploring some of the difficult questions around designing and implementing a coordinated provincial-federal carbon pricing strategy. The first blog explored the core objectives and challenges of such a strategy, while the second blog explored the size of the emissions gap (i.e. the emissions reductions necessary to […]

carbon gaps - federal-provincial carbon coordination - GHG emissions - climate goals
Feb 3 2016

Carbon Gaps: Emissions, Policy and Prices

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Climate and Energy

We’re currently exploring some of the issues related to federal-provincial carbon coordination in a blog series, and the emissions gap is a key measure of the work at-hand. The first blog in the series outlined three primary objectives, and five of the largest inherent challenges. The logical next step is to think about the scale […]

Canada's Ecofiscal Commission Annual Report 2014-2015
Jan 28 2016

Annual Report 2015: Letter from the Chair

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Climate and Energy Livable Cities Pollution

As an economist, I believe that good policy is central to prosperity. That was the idea behind Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission. We would be economists first and foremost, providing sound policy advice on how strong economies and healthy environments are interdependent. It turned out that other people shared this belief. When funding from some of Canada’s […]

federal-provincial coordination - carbon pricing policies
Jan 27 2016

The Many Pieces of Canada’s Federal-Provincial Climate Puzzle

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Climate and Energy

Federal and provincial ministers will be meeting early in March to discuss how best to move forward with coherent policies aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Despite plenty of enthusiasm from the new federal government and a few provinces, the task ahead is daunting, and hard work will be required to sort through the many complex […]

biofuel policy
Jan 21 2016

A legal bout in the U.S. shines light on some of the big challenges with biofuels in Canada

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Climate and Energy

Biofuel policy south of the border is heating up. On January 8th seven agricultural and biofuel groups initiated a court challenge against a recent ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which lowers the mandated minimum renewable fuel content in gasoline and diesel. The court challenge is interesting in its own right, but the rationale […]

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