The carbon tax criticism often overlooks its two-part structure: a fuel charge and a rebate that benefits Canadian households. Despite economists supporting carbon pricing as an effective tool for reducing green house gas emissions, criticism continues.

The energy transition is fiscally feasible, says Corporate Knights research director Ralph Torrie. He estimates the cost of decarbonizing the Canadian economy to be $150 billion a year – a fraction of Canada’s total annual capital spending of $650 billion.

Tamara Krawchenko, one of our co-researchers has recently co-authored this new book.

This study and reanalysis of the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge research project data, is one of the outcomes of our current research into new governance models for a carbon neutral economy.

Rich countries could raise five times the money that developing nations are asking for via windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies, scrapping polluting subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires.

Global leaders meet at COP16 as biodiversity loss accelerates at an alarming rate.

With government collaboration and cooperation, net-zero buildings are achievable by 2030.

Federal/provincial conflict demonstrates how we need to move to multi-level governance.

More than 250 billionaires and millionaires are demanding that the political elite meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos introduce wealth taxes to help pay for better public services around the world.

The world has to slash carbon emissions by almost half in the next seven years to remain on track for just 1.5C of global heating and avoid the worst of climate impacts. And yet, globally emissions continue to rise.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an update to its 2021 Net Zero Roadmap, claiming it is possible to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 with rapid action.

Even as the impacts of climate change are accelerating, progress on climate adaptation is slowing.

MP Mike Morrice is calling for a windfall profits tax on fossil fuel companies, to extend the Canada Recovery Dividend to include “excess” fossil fuel profits.

The Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University has recently launched a new website, Polycrisis.org.

A recent editorial by the Globe and Mail warns that “Poilievre Could Dial Back Canada’s Climate Gains.”

In a recent expert interview, one of my interviewees mentioned that in 1974 the incoming new federal regime cancelled the Social Policy Housing Act.

UN releases synthesis report from the technical dialogue of the first global stocktake, stressing urgency of climate action.

On Sunday, August 20th, Ecuador held a referendum to halt oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet.

Ownership of Canada's largest fossil fuel firms is increasingly concentrated among a small subset of predominantly foreign and corporate entities.