Time to get serious: Reliable funding for GTHA Transit/Transportation Infrastructure prepared by Neal Irwin, IBI Group and Andrew Bevan, Sustainable Prosperity.
Sustainable Prosperity (SP) is pleased to release an SP Policy Brief authored by Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and Alison Kemper, research associate at the Rotman School ‘s Michael Lee-Chin Family Centre for Corporate Citizenship, on “Carbon Pricing, Innovation, and Productivity”. The Policy Brief examines the evidence base on how carbon pricing promotes innovation, and how that innovation in turn can promote productivity. Productivity, of course, is the Holy Grail of Canadian competitiveness. And so Canada’s ability to innovate and to become more productive goes a long way to define our future prosperity. The take-away for policy makers, as Martin makes clear, is that carbon pricing needs to be brought into any policy discussion on productivity in Canada.
The role of the SP Policy Brief "Carbon Pricing, Investment, and the Low Carbon Economy" is to establish a basic frame of reference for considering the positive role that carbon pricing can play in helping Canada achieve long-term sustainable prosperity. In addition to investment, SP will be looking at how carbon pricing can promote innovation and productivity, and how carbon pricing intersects with our trade policy and interests. Other policy briefs, on subjects ranging from Ontario’s Feed-in-Tariff program and institutional models for carbon revenue management are also being developed. Eventually, the Policy Brief format will be extended out to include other areas of interest, including sustainable communities, water, and ecosystems services.
Ottawa Citizen: Why green business is crucial (August 12, 2010) Stewart Elgie was a Bay Street lawyer when he began litigating over the Exxon Valdez spill. It changed his life. University of Ottawa professor Stewart Elgie is founder and chair of Sustainable Prosperity, a national policy-research initiative focused on market-based approaches to environmental protection and economic sustainability. In 2001 at the age of 40, he became the youngest man to receive the Law Society of Upper Canada's medal for exceptional lifetime contribution to law. Postmedia News spoke to him about his commitment to sustainable practices. Q: You were among the lawyers litigating against oil giant Exxon over its 1989 oil spill. That experience led to the creation of SP and the desire to help corporations 'do the right thing.' How is that working for you? |
CBC Ottawa Morning: Alex Wood on Eco FeesTo listen to the broadcast go to the CBC Ottawa Morning story archive and select Eco Fees from July 21st. |
Pavan Sukhdev on Corporate Knights: The Invisible Economy Watch Pavan Sukhdev's (head of the United Nations Environment Programme Green Economy initiative) interview with news magazine Corporate Knights, filmed earlier this year (May 2010) during Mr. Sukhdev's Canadian tour organized by Sustainable Prosperity.
In the video, he explains the problems of a global economy that ignores nature and its services. Why do our governments and corporations value some things and not others? Mr. Sukhdev makes the case for the real value of our environment.
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