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Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Climate policy advisers need to take into account the real world trade-off between economic efficiency and political acceptability

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Here is my response to fellow economists who seem unwilling to take into account this trade-off when giving climate policy advice. It appea...
Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Is Win-Win Possible? Can Canada’s Government Achieve Its Paris Commitment . . . and Get Re-elected?

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For the past 6 months, I and co-researchers Mikela Hein and Tiffany Vass have been developing our national energy-economy model (CIMS) to si...
Monday, 22 August 2016

BC’s ‘New’ Climate Plan Scales Olympian Heights of Political Cynicism

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This blog was first published as an Op-Ed piece in The Globe and Mail Aug. 21, 2016 In 30 years of evaluating government climate plans,...
Monday, 14 March 2016

My interview in "Building a consensus on climate change? Not so easy, after all" in Macleans

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Here is the link to an article by John Geddes  " Building a consensus on climate change? Not so easy, after all" , Ottawa bureau ...

The Paris climate summit

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This article appeared in Policy Options in November 2015. The Paris climate summit Canada has consistently failed to deliver, but it’s...

Want an effective climate policy? Heed the evidence

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This article appeared in Policy Options in February 2016. Want an effective climate policy? Heed the evidence Carbon taxes and caps ma...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

My #KeystoneXL and #COP21-related media blitz

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I have given a large number of interviews to media outlets in the past few weeks  relating to President Obama's rejection of the Keyston...