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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 […]

Ontario HOT lane pilot project - congestion pricing
Jan 13 2016

Ontario’s Coming HOT Lane Pilot Project

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Livable Cities

Late last year, Ontario announced the details of two high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane projects as a means to improve traffic flow in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The Province will start by implementing a HOT lane—a hybrid of a tolled road and a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane—as a pilot project on a busy stretch of […]

Ontario - carbon pricing - cap-and-trade
Nov 25 2015

How does Ontario’s Cap and Trade Program Design Options consider competitiveness pressures?

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Climate and Energy

Today, let’s talk about competitiveness pressures on industry under carbon pricing and how carbon pricing policy can be designed to address these concerns. And in particular, let’s take a look at how Ontario’s draft proposal for its cap-and-trade system considers these challenges. I’ll get (a little bit) into the weeds, but the implications are quite […]

Provincial Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness Pressures - Ecofiscal Commission - carbon competitiveness
Nov 18 2015

Getting the Facts on Carbon Pricing and Business Competitiveness

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Climate and Energy

By Chris Ragan, Chair, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission The Ecofiscal Commission’s first carbon pricing report, The Way Forward, made the case that provincial carbon pricing leadership is both a practical and effective way to make urgent climate policy strides. But different carbon prices raise valid concerns about business competitiveness. Today we’re releasing new research to shed […]

Nov 4 2015

TLDR: The low-down on our latest report about congestion pricing

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Livable Cities

The Ecofiscal Commission’s latest report makes the case for implementing congestion pricing pilot projects in Canadian cities. In case you don’t have time to read the report, here are the findings in a nutshell. The new report, We Can’t Get There from Here: Why Pricing Traffic Congestion Is Critical to Beating It, describes why congestion […]

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