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Creating a Blueprint for Green Tech in Canada Webinar

Watch the Institute’s inaugural video webinar, where Associate Director of Research, Benjamin Dachis, moderated an expert panel examining the proper policy mix needed to develop an affordable blueprint that will help Canadian governments drive their green tech goals.

For a comprehensive analysis on how governments should invest in green technologies, click here.

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A Blueprint for Going Green

Governments across Canada are examining policies to promote low greenhouse gas emissions technology, which will be vital to meet Canada’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030.

What is the best policy mix for promoting these green technologies?

In this video we look at a three step blueprint that will lead to the efficient development of green technologies in Canada.

For the comprehensive analysis click here.

Ben Dachis – Ontario should let prices lead to energy savings, not arbitrary rules (Part I)

Wisest plan for Alberta’s carbon levy is investment in cutting-edge tech research: Edmonton Journal Op-Ed

It’s been on the right track so far with a price on emissions, but needs to make sure that most of its support for technology is for research and development and not wasted on subsidies to businesses and consumers for green tech they would have bought anyway.

Over the next five years, the Alberta government plans to collect nearly $10 billion in revenue from its price on greenhouse gas emissions. 

More than one-third of the revenue from the carbon levy is going back to taxpayers and small businesses through tax cuts. But the majority of the money that the government is collecting — more than $6 billion over five years — is going back into the energy sector through government spending.

How should the province…

Investing in clean tech not enough, governments need optimal policy – Globe and Mail Op-Ed

Governments across Canada are making support for green energy technology a top priority. But they should remember that simply providing subsidies to increase the supply of such tech is not enough. The optimal policy mix includes carbon pricing, to create demand for new tech, combined with government funding focused on developing distant techs not economical for private companies. Subsidizing consumers who adopt new tech is not the solution.

Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan includes up to $375-million of research and development support for low-carbon tech, and billions more for subsidies to encourage use of low-emission tech. Alberta’s government is proposing a carbon tax, with some revenue devoted to supporting low-emission…

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A Blueprint for Going Green: The Best Policy Mix for Promoting Low-Emissions Technology

Ontario climate plan ignores the beauty of cap-and-trade – Globe and Mail Op-Ed

The Ontario government has announced the details of its “climate-change action plan.” Under the five-year plan, up to $8.3-billion would be spent on subsidies for renewable energy and low-emissions technology support. In doing so, the government has taken a U-turn from a wise cap-and-trade policy toward costly subsidy programs.

The government was on the right track previously by relying on a cap-and-trade program to price emissions. This is a cost-efficient way of reducing emissions because it reaches the desired goal by letting market participants figure out the best way to do so.

The government plans to finance the new subsidies with revenues from an auction for permits that greenhouse-gas-emitting companies…

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