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Monday, 17 December 2018

A chat about carbon pricing

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Below is a link to a fun podcast chat I had with the very sharp interviewer Jayme Poisson on the un-necessity of carbon pricing. My 15 minu...
Saturday, 15 December 2018

Carbon Pricing: Wasting Time We Cannot Spare on the Optimal Steering Mechanism for the Titanic

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I am a climate-energy economist open to incorporating in my analysis and policy prescriptions lessons from other disciplines, in this case p...
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Monday, 30 April 2018

Canadian Carbon Pricing Confusions

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The federal government (Environment and Climate Change Canada - ECCC) released on April 30, 2018 its estimate of the incremental effect of ...
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 ...