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A dragon sits on a hilled landscape, polluting factories to its left and clean technologies to its right

Jun 12 2019

China’s sprawling approach to climate policy

It is indisputable that getting global emissions under control requires getting China’s emissions under control. So what is China doing about it? Not only is the nation of 1.4 billion getting serious about climate change, its policy approach often resembles Canada’s. The details warrant careful unpacking. Here is the present and future of China’s climate […]

Jun 11 2019

The scale of China’s climate challenge

by Brendan Frank

Climate and Energy China Climate Change Coal Renewable energy

You can’t talk about climate change without talking about China. It has the most people, the most pollution, and the world’s largest economy by some measures. It is a 21st century superpower, and its actions—at home and abroad—have global implications. As a result, China is a common “whataboutism.” It’s often held up as the reason […]

Mar 27 2019

The facts about carbon pricing in Canada

by Don Drummond and Brendan Frank

Climate and Energy Carbon Pricing Climate Change Ecofiscal Commissioners Economics for the Rest of Us

In 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada will have a price on carbon. It is the culmination of four years of work to develop a more coordinated approach to climate policy across Canada. Provinces had the opportunity to design their own carbon pricing systems. The federally designed carbon pricing policy (aka, the “backstop”) will come into […]

Mar 20 2019

Climate Roulette: Getting to the heart of the climate challenge

by Jason Dion

Climate and Energy Climate Change Climate Risk Polluter Pay

‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.’ It’s a cliché, but it holds an important lesson for climate change. So far in our blog series on climate risk, we’ve talked about the severity of the risks we face, what those risks mean for us, and how we can reduce those risks by […]

Mar 6 2019

Climate Roulette: Reducing risk through adaptation

by Jonathan Arnold

Climate and Energy Climate Change Climate Risk User Fees

Even if the world stopped emitting GHGs today, we’d still face dangerous sea-level rise, hotter temperatures, and more extreme weather events caused by our past emissions. Preparing and planning for these risks—some of which were explained in last week’s blog—can reduce how much damage they ultimately inflict on our health, economy, environment, and communities. That […]

Feb 27 2019

Climate Roulette: The human side of climate risk

by Brendan Frank

Climate and Energy Air Pollution Climate Change Climate Risk Economics for the Rest of Us

No one can fully get their mind around climate change. Confronting even one dimension of the problem—socioeconomic, environmental, cultural, geopolitical—can be overwhelming. Fortunately, we don’t have to know everything about climate change to confront it effectively. We can examine it through the lens of risk. As part our series on climate risk, this blog looks […]

An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing

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