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Jun 3 2015

Way Forward for Ontario: Design Principles for Ontario’s New Cap-and-Trade System

Join the live webcast of The Competitiveness Question: Business opportunities and challenges in a cap-and-trade environment tonight, June 3rd, at 5pm EDT. Research Brief Executive Summary Over the next year, Ontario will design and implement a cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Much public discussion has focused on the effectiveness of cap-and-trade as an […]

May 19 2015

How carbon pricing can spur innovation & cleaner economic growth

by Richard Lipsey

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By Richard Lipsey Humans are inventive creatures. Throughout history, whenever we’re presented with a challenge, we’ve invented our way around it. Carbon pricing is the perfect example of a business challenge. When we put a tax on fossil fuels or create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, it increases the cost of doing business. And […]

May 13 2015

Carbon tax versus cap-and-trade: what’s the difference? (Hint: it’s smaller than you think)

by Guest Blogger

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By Paul Lanoie When we talk about pricing carbon, there are two main possibilities. One option is creating a carbon tax, as B.C., Denmark and Sweden have done. The other option is to create a cap-and-trade system. This is the route Quebec has taken, along with California, Korea and parts of Europe. (It’s also possible […]

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Apr 28 2015

Four things Ontario’s cap-and-trade plan must get right

by Chris Ragan

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This Globe Debate piece about Ontario’s forthcoming cap-and-trade system by Chris Ragan and Paul Boothe originally appeared in the Globe and Mail on April 16, 2015. This week, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made a major announcement in the battle against climate change: Ontario will join Quebec and California in a “cap and trade” system to […]

Apr 22 2015

5 thoughtful responses to The Way Forward from Canadian experts

by Guest Blogger

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This is a fascinating moment to be working on climate policy in Canada. The conversation provincially and nationally has picked up significant momentum over the past few weeks, and the Ecofiscal Commission was able to play its own small part in shaping that discussion with the launch of The Way Forward. [View the story “5 […]

Provincial carbon pricing in Canada - Alberta Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER) and B.C. carbon tax.

Apr 20 2015

Carbon pricing in Canada: What works, what doesn’t and what we can learn from it

by Guest Blogger

Climate and Energy Cap-and-trade Carbon Pricing Carbon tax

To judge the success of different carbon pricing strategies, Canadians don’t need to look far. In 2007, Alberta implemented its Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER), a flexible performance standard, which has elements of both a carbon tax and a cap-and-trade system. B.C. has had a carbon tax since 2008, and Quebec just recently launched a […]

An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing

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