Time to get serious: Reliable funding for GTHA Transit/Transportation Infrastructure prepared by Neal Irwin, IBI Group and Andrew Bevan, Sustainable Prosperity.

Sustainable Prosperity (SP) is pleased to release an SP Policy Brief authored by Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and Alison Kemper, research associate at the Rotman School ‘s Michael Lee-Chin Family Centre for Corporate Citizenship, on “Carbon Pricing, Innovation, and Productivity”.

Briefing paper on transportation and infrastructure written by Sustainable Prosperity for the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

The role of the SP Policy Brief "Carbon Pricing, Investment, and the Low Carbon Economy" is to establish a basic frame of reference for considering the positive role that carbon pricing can play in helping Canada achieve long-term sustainable prosperity.

The Smart Budget Toolkit identifies the various Environmental Pricing Reform (EPR) options available to municipalities that help reduce their impacts on the environment, while at the same time establishing new, diverse sources of revenue.

In this report, Sean Calvert identifies examples of ‘best practices’ for Environmental Pricing Reform (EPR) strategies in Canadian municipalities. These examples reflect where EPR strategies have been implemented and have effectively achieved some environmental goal.

The Smart Budget report has been prepared to help community leaders in both the public and private sector gain a practical understanding of the potential role for environmental pricing reform (EPR) in building sustainable communities.

The objective of this paper is to lay out a framework for evaluating public investments in a transition to a low-carbon economy and low-carbon energy system.

A discussion document exploring why Canada needs to invest public resources in low carbon to compete globally, and how it can pay to do so.

SP Research Network members Tracy Snoddon and Randall Wigle (Wilfrid Laurier University) author SP-sponsored paper on Carbon Pricing in Canada.