Reports

Bridging the Gap: Real Options for Meeting Canada’s 2030 GHG Target (Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission 2019)
Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission is concluding its five-year mandate and has released its final report–Bridging the Gap: Real Options for Meeting Canada’s 2030 GHG Target. In this report, the Commission recognizes

Global Landscape of Climate Finance (Buchner, Clark, Falconer, Macquarie, Meattle and Wetherbee 2019)
In this new report, launched ahead of COP25, the authors track the newest patterns in climate finance, which crossed the USD half-trillion mark for the first time in 2017/2018. Average

Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness (2019)
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition launched the High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness at its 2018 High-Level Assembly to address the issue of potentially adverse impact of carbon pricing

New Plastics Economy Global Commitment progress report 2019 (Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UNEP, 2019)
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme published the first annual New Plastics Economy Global Commitment progress report. Launched in 2018, the Global Commitment now includes over 400
Brown to green: the G20 transition towards a net-zero emissions economy 2019 (ODI, 2019)
The ODI released their annual G20 Brown to Green report this week, showing that G20 countries’ energy-related CO2 emissions rose for a second year running in 2018. According to the

Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission critiques new study for “overestimating effects of carbon pricing”
5 November 2019: This week the Conference Board of Canada released an analysis of the impacts of carbon pricing on Canadian industry called Tipping the Scales: Assessing carbon competitiveness and