A C.D. Howe backgrounder by authors Jean-Thomas Bernard and Jean-Yves Duclose explaining how increasing the price of electricity and the carbon tax - gradually - is the best way for Québec to reach its environmental and energy objectives. Click here to read the report.

In this report, Stefan Ambec and Paul Lanoie, researchers afilliated with CIRANO, a research centre based in Montréal, Québec, summarize the research done on the Porter hypothesis - and argue that the expenses incurred to reduce pollution can sometime be partly or completely compensated by gains made elsewhere. Click here to read it.

A report released on September 14^th, 2009 by the DB Climate Change Advisors (Deutsche Bank Group) highlights how Germany is a “prime example of how governments can help lead the transition to a cleaner energy supply through a long term and comprehensive policy framework.” To read the article, click here.

The Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law has recently released a policy brief entitled "The Other Side of the Coin: The Economic Benefits of Climate Legislation". In the brief, J. Scott Holladay and Jason A. Schwartz conduct an informal analysis of the costs and benefits of the American Clean Energy and Security Act - and determine that the act is cost-benefit justified. To read the article, click here.

In the most recent Harvard Business Review, authors Ram Nidomolu, C.K. Prahalad and M.R. Rangaswami explain why sustainability isn't the burden on bottom lines that many executives believe it to be.

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