The past 12 months have roiled the global oil and gas industry. A stunning crash in commodity prices, vocal resistance to megaprojects, and calls for stronger climate policies from...
To become a true global leader, Canada needs a world-class climate law. Much has been made of the dissonance between how Canada styles itself as a moral leader on...
In her recent Policy Options article “BC’s green stimulus needs to focus on fuel switching, not energy efficiency,” Katya Rhodes argued that fuel switching is the path to decarbonizing...
The debts of developing countries were at the highest level on record before the great lockdown. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the fiscal space for most of these countries...
Sometimes a report can change the conversation. In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark special report showing that the world has only a short...
A new type of theoretical nuclear power plant design called small modular reactors (SMRs) has been in the news of late. Earlier this year, at the 2020 Canadian Nuclear...
Old habits are hard to break. Addictions are the toughest of all. So, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Houston in March 2017 and declared fealty to a...
A “logging loophole” is jeopardizing Canada’s global climate commitments, allowing the logging industry to escape scrutiny and regulation for impact on the climate-critical boreal forest. The boreal forest is...
Despite the headlines about high deficits because of the cost of COVID-19 programs, governments must avoid the knee-jerk reaction of drastically cutting spending right now. While deficits can be...
The world looks very different today than it did a few months ago, when the British Columbia government was in the midst of a review to modernize land use...
