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Mar 24 2015

Annette Verschuren on carbon pricing, jobs and making Canada a progressive energy leader

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Climate and Energy

The Ecofiscal Commission recently welcomed Annette Verschuren to its Advisory Board. We sat down for an interview with her. Your latest venture is NRSTor — a company that focuses on renewable-energy storage. Is it fair to say that you believe green energy has a role to play in Canada’s future? Yes. I think clean technology […]

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Feb 10 2015

5 Questions for Richard Lipsey: putting the market to work for the environment

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Climate and Energy Pollution Water

“If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three.” So said Winston Churchill. So what happens when you put 12 leading economists in a room and ask them to focus on one of the biggest challenges of our time: […]

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Feb 5 2015

Tossing it out of sight, out of mind

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Livable Cities

The following is the waste excerpt from The Policy Opportunity of Our Generation: Ecofiscal Reform in Canada’s Provinces and Cities, published in Public Sector Digest, February 2015, and made available online January 15th. This is the final of a four-part blog series that highlights how ecofiscal policies can help cities and provinces conserve water, fight […]

The sensible middle in the climate change debate: carbon pricing
Dec 31 2014

The sensible middle in the climate change debate

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Climate and Energy Pollution

This Economy Lab, Report on Business piece by Chris Ragan originally appeared in the Globe and Mail on December 30, 2014 An overwhelming scientific consensus holds that the rising atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases is changing the global climate and presenting humanity with enormous challenges. This consensus also holds that climate change is largely driven […]

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