Robert Smith

Robert Smith is principal of Midsummer Analytics, an Ottawa-based consultancy focused on the links between the economy and the environment and a senior associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. From 2003 to 2013, he was director of environmental statistics at Statistics Canada.

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Canada can lead on net-zero transition for heavy industry

Climate change is creating a new generation of green technologies on the one hand and on the other it is shrinking investment in fossil fuels due to fears that these assets will be “stranded” (left …

Our GDP fixation keeps us from measuring Canada’s true wealth

It is still too early to focus on what might come for Canada’s economy after the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, we will get to the point where this question will become central. When we do, Canadians …