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1. Canadian Climate Policy and Its Implications for Electricity Grids

   Along with many western developed countries, Canada has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40–45 percent by 2030 from 2005 emissions levels, and to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050. This is a huge challenge that, when considered on a ...

2. Carbon Pricing in High-Income OECD Countries

   Most economists consider human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions an unintended negative externality of production and consumption. A negative externality occurs when the effects of producing or consuming goods and services impose costs on a third party ...

3. Canada’s Climate Action Plans: Are They Cost-effective?

   Four provinces in Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec) have promulgated “action plans” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plans have several broad components. There is a carbon pricing component; there are assortments of energy ...

4. Poor Implementation Undermines Carbon Tax Efficiency in Canada

   Provinces across Canada have implemented some form of carbon pricing, either through carbon taxes or emission-trading schemes. These taxes are touted as being the most “efficient” way to control greenhouse gas emissions, yet be economically benign ...

5. How Alberta's Carbon Emission Cap Will Reduce Oil Sands Growth

   The Alberta government has proposed implementing a 100 megatonne (Mt) cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from oil sands operations. This paper estimated future emissions levels from oil sands production using oil sands production ...

6. Managing the Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: An Update

   Activist groups continue to oppose hydraulic fracturing, a new application of old technologies that is unlocking vast supplies of oil and natural gas in the United States and Canada. This opposition has resulted in the establishment of moratoria in ...

7. Managing the Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing

   Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a relatively new application of several old technologies used in oil and gas extraction that has made it possible to unlock large quantities of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons—fuels that can be used to access new and ...

8. Understanding Climate Change

   Global warming, climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions have received extensive media coverage in the past few years. Governments and the public are grappling with calls to do something. Some world leaders and prominent writers even say the future of ...

9. Independent Summary for Policymakers

   The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...

10. Greenhouse Gas Reductions: Not Warranted, Not Beneficial

    Increasingly, the debate over climate change is moving from alarmist global climate predictions, to alarmist regional climate predictions-reports purporting to predict the future climate impacts of rising greenhouse gas concentration on specific regions ...