This document discusses Canada's need to develop a coherent strategy to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change. It notes that while some provinces have introduced carbon pricing and other climate policies, the federal government has failed to implement a comprehensive plan. The document calls for innovative federal policies and an integrated approach to balancing energy demands with environmental imperatives. It argues that the 2020 emissions targets are no longer realistic and proposes refocusing efforts on a longer term climate policy framework integrated with a national energy strategy.
1) The document discusses defining a "green economy" in the Canadian context and argues that definitions need to account for Canada's diverse resource, manufacturing, and services sectors as well as consider transitioning these sectors.
2) It presents the economic case for a green economy by arguing that focusing on natural capital integration can provide environmental and economic benefits through efficiency and productivity gains.
3) For Canada, greening the economy makes sense given its wealth of natural capital and the opportunity to sustainably use natural resources for long-term social and economic benefits through innovation.
Fostering a Regional Green Economy: Municipal Roles and Others’ Responsibilit...Sustainable Prosperity
Stephanie Cairns, Managing Director, Sustainable Communities of Sustainable Prosperity on municipal roles and others' responsibilities on fostering a regional green economy. Presentation given at the Clean Air Council Green Economy Summit.
This document discusses economic instruments for ecosystem services in Canada. It summarizes that Sustainable Prosperity is a think tank promoting market-based instruments to achieve economic and environmental goals. It also outlines some policy options for ecosystem services, including command and control regulation, economic instruments like taxes and payments for ecosystem services, and examples of these instruments being used in Canada for issues like water pollution and biodiversity conservation.
Mark Jaccard SP SP Speaker Series: Climate Policy in Canada - Issues in Regio...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses two parts of Canadian climate policy and regional impacts. Part I examines how the government could address perceptions of regional unfairness if it wants to reduce GHG emissions. It finds that an intensity-based cap and trade system or an absolute cap and trade system with revenue recycling to cut personal and corporate taxes could minimize regional economic impacts. Part II discusses options for concerned citizens if the government does not want to reduce emissions.
The document discusses transportation issues like traffic congestion and accidents in Hamilton and their high economic costs. It also discusses related problems with urban sprawl, like farmland loss, increased infrastructure costs, and health issues. Traditional policy tools to address these problems, like transportation and land use planning, have had limited success. The key underlying cause of the problems is that market prices do not reflect environmental costs. Environmental pricing reform aims to internalize these external environmental costs by tools like road pricing, parking fees, development cost charges that vary by location, and property tax rates that encourage dense development near transit. While political and fairness challenges exist, well-designed pricing reforms could help address transportation, sprawl and environmental issues while also generating revenue.
Alex wood Presentation - Continental Divide? Canadian and US Views on Energy ...Sustainable Prosperity
Canadian attitudes: Canadians overwhelmingly believe that climate change is serious and that all levels of government need to be involved in solutions, including using carbon pricing. Economic evidence also shows carbon pricing can have positive impacts. Three surveys show strong Canadian support for carbon pricing through cap-and-trade or carbon taxes. A policy brief found Canadian businesses also strongly support carbon pricing.
This document discusses Canada's need to develop a coherent strategy to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change. It notes that while some provinces have introduced carbon pricing and other climate policies, the federal government has failed to implement a comprehensive plan. The document calls for innovative federal policies and an integrated approach to balancing energy demands with environmental imperatives. It argues that the 2020 emissions targets are no longer realistic and proposes refocusing efforts on a longer term climate policy framework integrated with a national energy strategy.
1) The document discusses defining a "green economy" in the Canadian context and argues that definitions need to account for Canada's diverse resource, manufacturing, and services sectors as well as consider transitioning these sectors.
2) It presents the economic case for a green economy by arguing that focusing on natural capital integration can provide environmental and economic benefits through efficiency and productivity gains.
3) For Canada, greening the economy makes sense given its wealth of natural capital and the opportunity to sustainably use natural resources for long-term social and economic benefits through innovation.
Fostering a Regional Green Economy: Municipal Roles and Others’ Responsibilit...Sustainable Prosperity
Stephanie Cairns, Managing Director, Sustainable Communities of Sustainable Prosperity on municipal roles and others' responsibilities on fostering a regional green economy. Presentation given at the Clean Air Council Green Economy Summit.
This document discusses economic instruments for ecosystem services in Canada. It summarizes that Sustainable Prosperity is a think tank promoting market-based instruments to achieve economic and environmental goals. It also outlines some policy options for ecosystem services, including command and control regulation, economic instruments like taxes and payments for ecosystem services, and examples of these instruments being used in Canada for issues like water pollution and biodiversity conservation.
Mark Jaccard SP SP Speaker Series: Climate Policy in Canada - Issues in Regio...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses two parts of Canadian climate policy and regional impacts. Part I examines how the government could address perceptions of regional unfairness if it wants to reduce GHG emissions. It finds that an intensity-based cap and trade system or an absolute cap and trade system with revenue recycling to cut personal and corporate taxes could minimize regional economic impacts. Part II discusses options for concerned citizens if the government does not want to reduce emissions.
The document discusses transportation issues like traffic congestion and accidents in Hamilton and their high economic costs. It also discusses related problems with urban sprawl, like farmland loss, increased infrastructure costs, and health issues. Traditional policy tools to address these problems, like transportation and land use planning, have had limited success. The key underlying cause of the problems is that market prices do not reflect environmental costs. Environmental pricing reform aims to internalize these external environmental costs by tools like road pricing, parking fees, development cost charges that vary by location, and property tax rates that encourage dense development near transit. While political and fairness challenges exist, well-designed pricing reforms could help address transportation, sprawl and environmental issues while also generating revenue.
Alex wood Presentation - Continental Divide? Canadian and US Views on Energy ...Sustainable Prosperity
Canadian attitudes: Canadians overwhelmingly believe that climate change is serious and that all levels of government need to be involved in solutions, including using carbon pricing. Economic evidence also shows carbon pricing can have positive impacts. Three surveys show strong Canadian support for carbon pricing through cap-and-trade or carbon taxes. A policy brief found Canadian businesses also strongly support carbon pricing.
Alliance President Kateri Callahan briefed policy and business leaders in Mexico on building energy codes in the U.S., and the public policy and multi-sector participation needed to create an effective code system that meets industry, consumer, environmental and governmental needs.
Leading policy, industry, and technical experts highlight renewable natural gas as a climate strategy and current experience, trends, and opportunities in U.S. states and regions.
This document discusses green tariffs from the perspective of customers. It provides information on why customers participate in green tariffs, how green tariffs have grown, and key considerations for effective program design. Some of the main reasons customers are interested in green tariffs are to meet renewable energy and emissions reduction goals, procure clean energy at scale, and gain price stability benefits. The document outlines challenges some programs have faced in attracting customers and notes that incorporating customer needs into program design and regular engagement are important for success.
This document summarizes a potential pay for success program to address childhood asthma through healthy homes interventions in Springfield, MA. It outlines the basic pay for success model and how it could apply to reducing asthma triggers in the home. Unhealthy homes cause 40% of asthma episodes, so addressing root causes through environmental assessments, education, and repairs could significantly improve health outcomes. The evidence shows home-based multi-trigger interventions recommended by the Surgeon General and Task Force can reduce asthma hospitalizations and costs. Measurable savings in healthcare utilization could repay private investors if a targeted number of asthma episodes are averted.
This document discusses opportunities for British companies in Australia's low carbon industry. It provides an overview of Australia's policy landscape on climate change, including legislation on carbon pricing and renewable energy targets. It also outlines various sector opportunities for low carbon technologies, professional services, and trading in Australia's developing carbon market. British companies are encouraged to engage with UK Trade & Investment for further information on opportunities in Australia's transition to a low carbon economy.
Cap & Trade: Implementation, Joint Government Meeting in Salem, OregonThe Climate Trust
In March 2017, Sean Penrith, Executive Director for The Climate Trust, joined the Department of Environmental Quality and the Public Utility Commission to present to the joint meeting of the House Energy and Environment and Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committees in Salem. The presentation covers international and national efforts under cap and trade mechanisms, highlighting positive economic impacts in California.
This deck examines existing clean energy goals that impact utility integrated resource planning. Presented by Heidi Ratz (Manager, U.S. Electricity Markets, WRI) at EUCI's Integrated Resource Planning Summit (September 2020)
Integrating Carbon Offset Revenue in Acquisition StrategyThe Climate Trust
Presentation from Mik McKee of The Climate Trust and Zach Barbane of ecoParnters from the 2016 Land Trust Alliance Road Rally. Information on the state of the carbon markets, how to identify opportunities for land trusts, project examples, and The Climate Trust's pilot carbon investment fund.
The City of Shreveport is requesting $75 million in federal funds to accelerate energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The funds would be used to retrofit over 78,000 homes and 2,120 public buildings, creating nearly 5,000 jobs. Partner organizations would help implement the program across Louisiana to reduce energy use by 20% and serve as a model for other communities. The goals are to cut costs and emissions through retrofits, train workers, and stimulate the local economy.
The document summarizes the benefits of LED lighting and Philips' commitment to carbon neutrality. Key points include:
- Philips is committed to carbon neutral global operations by 2020 through energy efficiency, renewable energy use, and carbon offsets. They have already reduced their carbon footprint 41% since 2007.
- Accelerating the renovation of existing lighting and adoption of efficient LED technologies worldwide could yield annual energy savings of €272 billion, reduce carbon emissions by 1400 million tons, and save the equivalent of 1250 power plants by 2030.
- Philips is working on projects and partnerships around the world to promote efficient lighting, including a project in Madrid replacing all street lights with LED that achieves 50
An Introduction to Carbon Offsets, Markets and ProjectsThe Climate Trust
The document provides an outline and information about carbon offset projects. It discusses that The Climate Trust was founded in 1997 to acquire carbon offsets for new power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard. It developed processes to evaluate, quantify, verify and register offset projects. The document also discusses the types of offset projects including forestry, agriculture, cookstoves, and fertilizer. It provides examples of offset projects in Latin America.
Green Collar Workforce Development Slide ShowBob Moreo
The document discusses key considerations for developing successful green job initiatives at the local level including setting clear environmental goals, identifying in-demand job skills, engaging relevant workforce populations, implementing supportive policies and investments, coordinating education and training programs, and documenting results to gain ongoing support.
This document discusses planning for low carbon development in cities. It notes that cities account for a large portion of global energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions due to their concentration of industry, infrastructure and population. The growth and form of cities influences their energy demands and emissions. Planning for energy efficient urban systems, buildings, transportation and land use can help reduce a city's carbon footprint and transition to more sustainable development. The challenges include developing policies and capacity to integrate energy and environmental concerns into urban planning.
Brian Castelli, Executive VP of Programs and Development at the Alliance to Save Energy presented at the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Energy and Sustainability Conference. In his presentation Generating Energy Through Efficiency, he discussed the many ways in which the Commonwealth of Virginia can harness the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency – for example, through utility programs, public benefit funds and state-administered appliance standards, to name a few areas. Looking at the big picture, Virginia’s actions today could help strengthen tomorrow’s national plan for energy efficiency.
Presentation by The Climate Trust's Executive Director, Sean Penrith, at the Northwest Legislators Carbon Policy Forum. Presentation includes: the basics of cap, tax and dividend; real world performance; Oregon's choices; and implications for the region and compliance with the Clean Power Plan.
Infrastructure and Investment Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in BuildingsAlliance To Save Energy
Vice President for Programs Jeff Harris (jharris@ase.org) discussed energy efficiency measures in new and existing buildings, as well as cross-cutting techniques for achieving maximum advantages. Jeff’s work focuses on U.S. and international energy efficiency policies for buildings, appliances, and utilities, and market transformation through public sector leadership.
Executive VP of Programs and Development Brian Castelli traveled to Mexico City to present at EXPO INCYTAM 2008, where he offered energy efficiency solutions for Latin American cities burdened by the effects of pollution and global climate change.
This deck provides an overview of renewable energy options for large utility customers in the US, as presented at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners conference in 2019.
The document discusses sustainability initiatives in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It focuses on (1) reducing pollution and toxicity to improve human and environmental health, (2) decreasing waste and increasing recycled content, and (3) lowering non-renewable energy consumption and depletion of natural resources. The city aims to lead by example in government and encourage similar actions in households and businesses.
Alliance President Kateri Callahan briefed policy and business leaders in Mexico on building energy codes in the U.S., and the public policy and multi-sector participation needed to create an effective code system that meets industry, consumer, environmental and governmental needs.
Leading policy, industry, and technical experts highlight renewable natural gas as a climate strategy and current experience, trends, and opportunities in U.S. states and regions.
This document discusses green tariffs from the perspective of customers. It provides information on why customers participate in green tariffs, how green tariffs have grown, and key considerations for effective program design. Some of the main reasons customers are interested in green tariffs are to meet renewable energy and emissions reduction goals, procure clean energy at scale, and gain price stability benefits. The document outlines challenges some programs have faced in attracting customers and notes that incorporating customer needs into program design and regular engagement are important for success.
This document summarizes a potential pay for success program to address childhood asthma through healthy homes interventions in Springfield, MA. It outlines the basic pay for success model and how it could apply to reducing asthma triggers in the home. Unhealthy homes cause 40% of asthma episodes, so addressing root causes through environmental assessments, education, and repairs could significantly improve health outcomes. The evidence shows home-based multi-trigger interventions recommended by the Surgeon General and Task Force can reduce asthma hospitalizations and costs. Measurable savings in healthcare utilization could repay private investors if a targeted number of asthma episodes are averted.
This document discusses opportunities for British companies in Australia's low carbon industry. It provides an overview of Australia's policy landscape on climate change, including legislation on carbon pricing and renewable energy targets. It also outlines various sector opportunities for low carbon technologies, professional services, and trading in Australia's developing carbon market. British companies are encouraged to engage with UK Trade & Investment for further information on opportunities in Australia's transition to a low carbon economy.
Cap & Trade: Implementation, Joint Government Meeting in Salem, OregonThe Climate Trust
In March 2017, Sean Penrith, Executive Director for The Climate Trust, joined the Department of Environmental Quality and the Public Utility Commission to present to the joint meeting of the House Energy and Environment and Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committees in Salem. The presentation covers international and national efforts under cap and trade mechanisms, highlighting positive economic impacts in California.
This deck examines existing clean energy goals that impact utility integrated resource planning. Presented by Heidi Ratz (Manager, U.S. Electricity Markets, WRI) at EUCI's Integrated Resource Planning Summit (September 2020)
Integrating Carbon Offset Revenue in Acquisition StrategyThe Climate Trust
Presentation from Mik McKee of The Climate Trust and Zach Barbane of ecoParnters from the 2016 Land Trust Alliance Road Rally. Information on the state of the carbon markets, how to identify opportunities for land trusts, project examples, and The Climate Trust's pilot carbon investment fund.
The City of Shreveport is requesting $75 million in federal funds to accelerate energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The funds would be used to retrofit over 78,000 homes and 2,120 public buildings, creating nearly 5,000 jobs. Partner organizations would help implement the program across Louisiana to reduce energy use by 20% and serve as a model for other communities. The goals are to cut costs and emissions through retrofits, train workers, and stimulate the local economy.
The document summarizes the benefits of LED lighting and Philips' commitment to carbon neutrality. Key points include:
- Philips is committed to carbon neutral global operations by 2020 through energy efficiency, renewable energy use, and carbon offsets. They have already reduced their carbon footprint 41% since 2007.
- Accelerating the renovation of existing lighting and adoption of efficient LED technologies worldwide could yield annual energy savings of €272 billion, reduce carbon emissions by 1400 million tons, and save the equivalent of 1250 power plants by 2030.
- Philips is working on projects and partnerships around the world to promote efficient lighting, including a project in Madrid replacing all street lights with LED that achieves 50
An Introduction to Carbon Offsets, Markets and ProjectsThe Climate Trust
The document provides an outline and information about carbon offset projects. It discusses that The Climate Trust was founded in 1997 to acquire carbon offsets for new power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard. It developed processes to evaluate, quantify, verify and register offset projects. The document also discusses the types of offset projects including forestry, agriculture, cookstoves, and fertilizer. It provides examples of offset projects in Latin America.
Green Collar Workforce Development Slide ShowBob Moreo
The document discusses key considerations for developing successful green job initiatives at the local level including setting clear environmental goals, identifying in-demand job skills, engaging relevant workforce populations, implementing supportive policies and investments, coordinating education and training programs, and documenting results to gain ongoing support.
This document discusses planning for low carbon development in cities. It notes that cities account for a large portion of global energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions due to their concentration of industry, infrastructure and population. The growth and form of cities influences their energy demands and emissions. Planning for energy efficient urban systems, buildings, transportation and land use can help reduce a city's carbon footprint and transition to more sustainable development. The challenges include developing policies and capacity to integrate energy and environmental concerns into urban planning.
Brian Castelli, Executive VP of Programs and Development at the Alliance to Save Energy presented at the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Energy and Sustainability Conference. In his presentation Generating Energy Through Efficiency, he discussed the many ways in which the Commonwealth of Virginia can harness the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency – for example, through utility programs, public benefit funds and state-administered appliance standards, to name a few areas. Looking at the big picture, Virginia’s actions today could help strengthen tomorrow’s national plan for energy efficiency.
Presentation by The Climate Trust's Executive Director, Sean Penrith, at the Northwest Legislators Carbon Policy Forum. Presentation includes: the basics of cap, tax and dividend; real world performance; Oregon's choices; and implications for the region and compliance with the Clean Power Plan.
Infrastructure and Investment Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in BuildingsAlliance To Save Energy
Vice President for Programs Jeff Harris (jharris@ase.org) discussed energy efficiency measures in new and existing buildings, as well as cross-cutting techniques for achieving maximum advantages. Jeff’s work focuses on U.S. and international energy efficiency policies for buildings, appliances, and utilities, and market transformation through public sector leadership.
Executive VP of Programs and Development Brian Castelli traveled to Mexico City to present at EXPO INCYTAM 2008, where he offered energy efficiency solutions for Latin American cities burdened by the effects of pollution and global climate change.
This deck provides an overview of renewable energy options for large utility customers in the US, as presented at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners conference in 2019.
The document discusses sustainability initiatives in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It focuses on (1) reducing pollution and toxicity to improve human and environmental health, (2) decreasing waste and increasing recycled content, and (3) lowering non-renewable energy consumption and depletion of natural resources. The city aims to lead by example in government and encourage similar actions in households and businesses.
The document summarizes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) experience in mobilizing finance for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation). It outlines the EBRD's Green Economy Transition approach from 2021-2025, which aims to accelerate the transition to green, low-carbon economies. Key aspects include increasing green financing to over 50% of annual business by 2025, adopting a systemic approach to supporting low-carbon, climate-resilient economies, and focusing interventions across areas like green financial systems, industrial decarbonization, and sustainable infrastructure to increase impact. The EBRD also has a track record of over €35 billion invested in green projects since 2006 and targets avoiding
The most important medium term challenge in the region is how to manage the growth of cities without compromising the environment, the economy, its governance and quality of life of its citizens. Urban transformation cannot be improvised and sustainable growth requires planning to face the future. An in order to be sustainable planning requires assuming a regional and metropolitan strategy. Planning should be inclusive, allowing all members of society to share their vision of the future of the city. This vision should at least aim at reducing vulnerability and should be based on democratic principles and equity; should promote the protection of undeveloped land; the preservation of cultural heritage; and strengthening the economy. Improve the quality of life for residents, maintaining and strengthen the representativeness, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of authorities and city government is indispensable.
How to Save a Planet - On a Budget: Hour 2: Public Private Partnerships for R...Social Media Today
The webinar discusses financing green infrastructure projects on a budget through public-private cooperation. It features speakers from Siemens Financial Services, CH2M HILL, and the US Green Building Council who will discuss stimulus programs, the economic case for renewable infrastructure investments, and examples of green infrastructure projects financed through innovative public-private models. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions and share thoughts on social media using the #GreenFinance hashtag.
The document discusses the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It defines a green economy as one that improves human well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks. The UNEP is supporting green economy initiatives in 20 countries and its approach includes establishing enabling conditions through regulations and incentives, promoting investment in key sectors like agriculture and energy, and using modeling to analyze scenarios. Transitioning to a green economy could lead to enhanced wealth, higher GDP growth, more jobs, and reduced poverty according to the analysis.
The document summarizes a presentation about developing a Growth Management Strategy (GMS) for the Town of High River. The GMS will provide a roadmap for sustainable growth over the next 30 years, focusing on increasing density targets and reducing costs and environmental impacts. It discusses moving to more compact, mixed-use development compared to conventional suburban sprawl, and highlights the financial and safety benefits of higher density development. Community feedback will be gathered early in the GMS development process.
A perspective from the voluntary carbon market: supporting project-level PES ...IIED
The document summarizes information about the Plan Vivo Standard, which is the longest-standing voluntary carbon standard for land use projects, established in 2008. It discusses how the standard supports projects involving payments for ecosystem services (PES) and REDD+ initiatives. It provides details on Plan Vivo's governance structure, the tens of thousands of participants organized across various community groups, and how it aims for flexible, transparent and equitable benefit sharing with low transaction costs. It also notes that over 50 projects have been operational or in development across 30 countries under this standard.
The Pew Charitable Trusts developed an approach to analyze the clean energy economy of the US. The approach provides a framework to track investments, jobs, business growth over time. It defines a clean energy economy as one that generates jobs and businesses through clean energy production, energy efficiency, reducing emissions, and conserving resources. The US clean energy sector has grown due to various state and federal initiatives and incentives. Jobs in this sector have increased significantly between 1998-2007 especially in energy generation.
Community carbon trading: does the market pay and what is in it for intermedi...IIED
The presentation of Kathleen Edie, of Plan Vivo, to the IIED-hosted Moving ahead with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) workshop on 9-10 April 2014.
The presentation, made in the third session on experiences from the ground and REDD+ financing, focused on community carbon trading, and examined what the market would pay and what intermediaries (sellers) and buyers could gain from REDD+.
More information on Plan Vivo's work: http://www.planvivo.org/.
Further details of the workshop and IIED's work on REDD+ are available via http://www.iied.org/coverage-moving-ahead-redd-prospects-challenges-workshop.
The document analyzes the potential for reducing carbon emissions in the Leeds City Region through investments in low carbon measures. It finds that compared to 1990 levels, carbon emissions could be reduced by:
- 12.9% through cost effective investments that would pay for themselves within 4 years
- 18.0% through cost neutral investments that could be funded from savings of cost effective measures and pay for themselves within 7 years
- 18.8% by exploiting all realistic potential of low carbon measures and paying for themselves within 7 years
These reductions would cut projected increases in the Leeds City Region's annual energy bill of £1.86 billion by 2022 by 64-92% through savings from the low carbon investments. The
This document discusses challenges that cities face in financing wastewater infrastructure projects and managing wastewater regulations. It suggests that traditional sources of financing like grants and public-private partnerships may not be sufficient. The document proposes using environmental pricing reforms like user fees and adjusting water rates to encourage conservation as alternatives to generate revenue. It also outlines how to overcome potential challenges to adopting new policies from equity concerns, opposition from vested interests, fiscal impacts, and political will.
This document summarizes Dr. Patrick Verkooijen's presentation on multilevel governance and climate change. It discusses three key actions to tackle climate change: 1) Catalyze a globally-networked carbon market to establish carbon pricing; 2) Support the removal of harmful fossil fuel subsidies totaling $1.9 trillion annually; 3) Create climate-resilient cities through low-carbon development. The World Bank's new climate action plan aims to enhance resilience, support low-carbon transitions, scale up climate finance, and integrate climate considerations into policies and investments.
This document summarizes Dr. Patrick Verkooijen's presentation on multilevel governance and climate change. It discusses three key actions to tackle climate change: 1) Catalyze a globally-networked carbon market to establish carbon pricing; 2) Support the removal of harmful fossil fuel subsidies totaling $1.9 trillion annually; 3) Create climate-resilient cities through low-carbon development. The World Bank's new climate action plan aims to enhance resilience, support low-carbon transitions, scale up climate finance, and integrate climate considerations into policies and investments.
This document discusses a webinar on multilevel governance and climate change. It introduces the speaker, Dr. Patrick Verkooijen from the World Bank, who will discuss how bold action is needed to tackle climate change in order to end poverty and build shared prosperity. The webinar will cover a proposed World Bank climate change action plan to enhance resilience to climate change, support a low carbon transition, scale up climate finance, and integrate climate considerations into World Bank policies and investments.
Fujitsu has a long history of sustainability dating back to 1938. They are now focused on reducing customer greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tons by 2020 through green ICT solutions. Fujitsu aims to reduce their own emissions (OF ICT) by 3 million tons by 2012 through energy efficient products and design. They also aim to reduce emissions by 12 million tons (BY ICT) by providing solutions like sustainable data centers, cloud computing and smart grids to customers. Fujitsu is a leader in sustainability and is committed to quantifiable improvements for customers and society through 2050.
Blake Lapthorn Green Breakfast with guest speaker Andrew Mitchell, founder an...Blake Morgan
Blake Lapthorn were pleased to welcome Andrew Mitchell, founder and director of Global Canopy Programme to the first breakfast of the new Autumn 2011 series.
TravelSmart uses individualized travel marketing (ITM) to promote sustainable and active travel by directly engaging households in dialogue about their travel behaviors and providing information and support to enable behavior change. Projects have consistently reduced car-as-driver trips by 9-14% based on before-and-after surveys, with corresponding increases in walking, cycling, and public transportation. Financial savings and health benefits result from increased active travel, while carbon emissions are reduced through decreased car usage.
This document introduces the Indian Responsible Competitiveness Index, which aims to award the most responsibly competitive companies in India. It discusses how sustainable development challenges like climate change, water scarcity, and food security present both risks and business opportunities. The concept of Responsible Competitiveness is introduced as an enterprise-wide approach to managing these issues to enhance business performance through innovation, cost reduction, reputation, revenue, and risk mitigation. The index will rate and benchmark companies across industries in India on their responsible competitiveness.
This document summarizes Turku's efforts towards integrated management for sustainability and climate protection. It outlines Turku's compact urban core surrounded by archipelago, woodlands, and countryside. It details Turku's climate path showing decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It presents Turku's vision, values, and strategic steering towards sustainable development. Key implementation programs are described addressing housing, environment, competence, and residents' wellbeing. Sustainable development budgeting is implemented through joint measures and department-specific projects. Examples illustrate targets, indicators, and resources for budget measures and infrastructure projects supporting sustainability goals. Further development focuses on continuity, improvement, and full integration across the city organization and community.
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William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses different perspectives on the costs of transitioning to clean energy. It notes that while clean energy technologies are currently more expensive than fossil fuels, their costs are declining over time. There is debate around whether policy should focus on research to lower costs before large-scale deployment, or subsidize current deployment to drive innovation and meet climate goals. The document also summarizes cost estimates from the US Energy Information Administration and notes they have been controversial but provide an important benchmark for analysis.
The document outlines the United States' 2025 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels. It details examples of existing and new policies across various sectors that will help achieve this target, including the Clean Power Plan, vehicle fuel efficiency standards, methane emission regulations, HFC phasedowns, and forest/wetland protection programs. The target doubles the country's decarbonization pace and is consistent with over 80% reductions by 2050.
Tim Profeta, Director Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy SolutionsSustainable Prosperity
The document provides an overview of the U.S. Clean Power Plan. It discusses the basic structure of the plan, including the best system of emission reduction building blocks and EPA's translation of emissions guidelines into rate and mass forms. It outlines the original compliance timeline and key choices for states in developing plans, such as whether to use a mass-based or rate-based approach. It also discusses ongoing legal challenges to the plan from 27 states and industry groups, as well as potential outcomes and paths forward given various scenarios around the presidential election and court rulings.
Alberta implemented a new climate policy in November 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a lower-carbon economy. The policy includes an economy-wide carbon levy, a phase out of coal-fired power by 2030, a cap on oil sands emissions, reduced methane emissions from oil and gas, and an energy efficiency agency. Revenue from the carbon levy will fund renewable energy, green infrastructure, energy efficiency programs, tax cuts, and support for vulnerable groups. The policy aims to make Alberta's energy industry and electricity generation cleaner while incentivizing emissions reductions across the economy.
Peter Nicholson, inaugural President of the Canadian Council of AcademicsSustainable Prosperity
This document discusses Canada's history of low business innovation and examines factors that have sustained this equilibrium. While Canada has implemented conventional market-centric policies to promote innovation over the past 25 years, business expenditure on R&D and productivity growth have remained disappointing. However, Canadian businesses have matched US corporate profits by focusing more on job growth than innovation. Four emerging trends - developing markets, information technology, sustainability issues, and aging populations - now demand more innovative responses from businesses. The document concludes that innovation policies will only become truly effective when businesses realize they must change their strategies to adapt to these new success factors.
Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, University of...Sustainable Prosperity
British Columbia implemented a carbon tax in 2008 that has increased over time. The tax raises about $1.2 billion annually, which is used to lower personal and corporate income taxes, making BC's taxes among the lowest. Studies found the tax responsible for a 5-15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with no impact on overall GDP growth. While some sectors like manufacturing contracted by 5-7%, the tax led to a shift to cleaner sectors and the creation of about 5,000 new jobs per year. The tax was designed to offset costs for low-income households but evidence is mixed on how well it compensates them. Support for the tax has risen over time but remains lowest in older, rural males.
Monica Gattinger, Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Univer...Sustainable Prosperity
This document discusses factors that influence public confidence in energy policy and regulation. It identifies three main issues: "elephants", large policy gaps around climate change and Indigenous rights; "horses", fundamental social and value changes that have occurred; and "sitting ducks", energy decision-making processes that are criticized and undermine confidence. It argues that governments must accept social change, address major policy issues, and strengthen decision-making processes through fair, evidence-based approaches to rebuild public trust in energy governance.
Louise Metivier, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Environment and Climate...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses Canada's implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change. It outlines key aspects of the agreement, including limiting global warming to well below 2°C. It also discusses Canada's national climate actions and investments, the development of a pan-Canadian framework on climate and clean growth, and the importance of regional cooperation in North America on climate change issues.
Gord Lambert, Suncor Sustainability Executive-in-Residence, Ivey Business Sch...Sustainable Prosperity
Gordon Lambert argues that climate change requires integrated climate and energy policy between North American countries. He proposes that countries (1) declare common goals to reduce emissions, (2) define policies and actions to achieve these goals through accelerated collaboration, and (3) allocate joint resources to drive innovation in priority areas like methane reduction and electrifying transportation. Lambert advocates using new collaborative models like COSIA, where energy companies work as a "peloton" to quickly share knowledge and resources toward a common goal of accelerating emissions reductions.
Fernando Gonzalez Saiffe, Counselor, Political and Multilateral AffairsSustainable Prosperity
This document outlines Mexico's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change from 2020-2030. Key points include:
- Mexico commits to unconditionally reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 22% and up to 36% conditionally by 2030 compared to business as usual.
- For black carbon, the goals are a 51% reduction unconditionally and up to 70% conditionally by 2030.
- Adaptation priorities include increasing community resilience and infrastructure resilience to climate impacts.
- Conditional goals depend on international market mechanisms for emissions trading and finance/technology from other countries.
- Challenges include detailing sectoral actions,
Dr. Duncan Wood discusses prospects for trilateral climate policy between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Several factors are driving changes in climate policy across North America: increasingly severe weather, the international consensus around the Paris Agreement, more climate-friendly governments, growth in renewable energy and efficiency technologies. Mexico has undertaken an energy reform to transition to cleaner sources. While emissions profiles vary between the countries, all three recognize the need for cooperation on climate change. The document outlines current bilateral and trilateral climate initiatives and potential future policy paths for North America.
Dirk Forrister, President and CEO, International Emissions Trading AssociationSustainable Prosperity
This document discusses the key topics of the Paris Climate Agreement: ambition, cooperation, and opportunity. It summarizes the climate challenges of limiting warming to 1.5-2°C, which will require massive reductions in emissions by 2050. The Paris Agreement provides for international cooperation on carbon markets and recognizes mitigation outcomes can be transferred between countries. Going forward, carbon markets could be enhanced through a centralized UN hub or independent trading clubs to further ambition cost-effectively.
The document discusses policy tools for clean innovation. It notes that while renewable energy is growing, significant carbon emission reductions require further technology development and deployment. Market forces provide insufficient incentives for environmentally-friendly technologies due to externalities and public goods problems. Both environmental policy and R&D policy are needed, with environmental policy creating demand for clean technologies to drive innovation, and R&D policy helping to lower costs. A wide range of policy instruments can be used, with market-based ones providing stronger innovation incentives than command-and-control approaches. Government R&D should focus on long-term basic research. Technology transfer depends on demand in recipient countries, with the large U.S. market being key for driving innovation.
1. The document discusses different approaches Canada could take in harmonizing its climate policies with the United States, including leading, lagging, or harmonizing. Modeling shows harmonizing through allowance trading leads to lower costs.
2. The impacts of US climate policies on Canada are also examined through modeling. US actions could indirectly reduce Canadian emissions and impact economic sectors differently.
3. The document outlines Canada's fragmented subnational climate policies and notes deeper harmonization across jurisdictions will be needed for deep decarbonization. Continued harmonization of regulations and price signals between Canada and the US is advocated for.
Chris Boivin, Vice President, Investments, Sustainable Development Technology...Sustainable Prosperity
SDTC is a Canadian government organization that funds clean technology projects to address climate change, air quality, clean water and land. It has provided over $1 billion in funding to leverage $3.3 billion total for 320 projects. SDTC's approach since 2001 has been to fund a wide range of technologies, identify failures to learn, and help build capacity in the cleantech sector. While markets and policies have changed dramatically, SDTC's diverse portfolio and patience has allowed some technologies to succeed commercially. Lessons learned include the need for business resilience and strong economic value propositions not reliant on carbon policy.
Brent Lakeman, Executive Director, Technology Partnerships and Investments, A...Sustainable Prosperity
The document summarizes Alberta's efforts to accelerate clean technology and innovation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It discusses Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan which focuses on implementing carbon pricing, phasing out coal-generated electricity, limiting oil sands emissions, and reducing methane emissions. The plan will invest $9.6 billion over 5 years in renewable energy, green infrastructure, energy efficiency, and technology diversification to create economic opportunities and meet climate targets.
Blas l. Perez Henriquez, Director, The California - Global Energy, Water and...Sustainable Prosperity
This document summarizes a presentation on opportunities for clean energy cooperation across North America. It discusses existing climate policies and leadership in California, Mexico, and some Canadian provinces. There is potential to scale up regional collaboration on carbon pricing mechanisms, clean technology innovation, and sustainable infrastructure. Key challenges include the lack of federal climate policy in Canada and the US, but subnational governments and initiatives show promising ways forward for a prosperous low-carbon economy across the continent by 2050.
Billy Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Envir...Sustainable Prosperity
This document summarizes the key differences between state cap-and-trade programs and a federal carbon pricing program. It notes that state programs like California's and RGGI generate billions in annual revenue from auctioning emissions allowances. However, a federal carbon price could reduce revenues for state programs by meeting part of the overall carbon price. The document also cautions that a carbon tax may only qualify as "fiscal reform" if paired with broader tax changes, otherwise it risks being seen as just another tax.
Bill Hohenstein, Director, Climate Change Program Office, United State Depart...Sustainable Prosperity
The USDA has set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors by 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually by 2025. This target is part of the US commitment to reduce overall national emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels. The USDA will pursue this target through a set of "building blocks" that promote practices like soil health, grazing land management, forest conservation, and use of wood products to both reduce emissions and increase carbon storage in lands and forests. Key strategies include partnerships with industry and producers to adopt practices voluntarily with incentive programs. Progress will be measured quantitatively toward specific goals in each building block area.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
20240609 QFM020 Irresponsible AI Reading List May 2024
Greening the Economy Federal-Municipal Policy Alignment
1. Greening
the
Economy
Federal-‐Municipal
Policy
Alignment
David
Thompson
Director,
Sustainable
Communi8es
Sustainable
Prosperity
www.sustainableprosperity.ca
February
8,
2012
2. Report
Overview
• Green
Economy
• What
it
means
• Opportuni8es
• Municipal
Ac8on
• GE
Benefits
&
Advantages
• Federal
Policy
Alignment
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3. Meaning
of
GE
in
Canada:
Observed
NaConal
Goals
• Economic
growth
• Higher
employment
levels
• Public
debt
reduc8on
Green
• Climate
change
mi8ga8on
• Economy
Clean
water
&
air
• Reduced
waste
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4. Green
Economy
OpportuniCes
– Green
economy
is
growing
• Globally,
green
economy
worth
over
$4
trillion
– Canadian
sustainability
market
(green
tech
and
services)
• $2.3
billion
in
2010
• $3.7
billion
by
2014
– Canada
significant
opportunity
for
further
growth
• sustainability
ranking
24th
out
of
25
in
OECD
Making markets work for the environment 4
5. MunicipaliCes
can
help
achieve
goals
Federal
green
economy
goals
Municipal
ac8ons
Making markets work for the environment 5
6. Diverse,
EffecCve
Municipal
Policy
Tools
– Planning
– Zoning
– Development
control
– Establishment
of
protected
areas
– Adjus8ng
property
taxes,
user
fees
&
user
taxes
– Capital
cost
financing
assistance
– Procurement
policies
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7. Key
Municipal
GE
AcCon
Areas
– Sustainable
transporta8on
– Efficient
urban
land
use
– Energy
efficiency
of
buildings
– Renewable
energy
– Water
treatment
and
conserva8on
– Solid
waste
management
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8. GE
Benefits
&
Advantages
– Across
many
sectors
of
economy
– Na8on-‐wide,
not
isolated
regions
– In
rural
areas,
towns,
ci8es
of
all
sizes
– Bang-‐for-‐buck
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9. and services sectors, and production. As it turns out,
across regions, provinces and green economy sectors pro- REPORT FOLLOWS
the national economy. Invest- vide relatively high levels of THAT CONVENTION.
ments benefit not only those employment and GDP impact
who are directly employed, per dollar invested.
GE
Benefits
&
Advantages
but many others. Indeed,
FIGURE 6:
CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT MULTIPLIERS – SELECTED
SECTORS (DIRECT AND INDIRECT EMPLOYMENT)
Bang-‐for-‐Buck:
job-‐crea8on
of
different
investments
CONSTRUCTION
REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES
TRANSIT AND GROUND PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION
OTHER MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES
OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION
DIRECT
SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FOR MINING, OIL & GAS EXTRACTION
INDIRECT
PETROLEUM AND COAL PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING
0 5 10 15 20 25
PERSON-YEARS EMPLOYMENT PER $MILLION INVESTED
Source: Statistics Canada, “National Input-Output Multipliers”71
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Building a Green Economy for Canada: The Role of Municipalities /
10. Federal
Policy
Alignment
• Untapped
municipal
poten8al
for
achieving
GE
benefits
• Municipali8es
oden
swimming
against
bigger
policy
8de
• Could
achieve
more
with
federal
policies
aligned
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11. Federal
Policy
Alignment
Can
Leverage
Municipal
AcCon
– Predictable
long-‐term
infra.
funding,
emphasizing:
• Sustainable
transporta8on
• Climate
change
adapta8on
– Energy
efficiency
building
retrofits
– Subsidy
reform
– Knowledge
and
capacity
building
– Na8onal
user
fee
policy
– Harmonize
carbon
prices
(implicit
and
explicit)
– Extended
producer
responsibility
framework
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12. Policy
Alignment?
Sprawl
and
Sustainable
TransportaCon
Federal
GE
goals:
climate
change
mi8ga8on,
cleaner
air
Municipal
ac8ons:
Development
charge
&
property
tax
adjustments
Making markets work for the environment 12
13. Policy
Misalignment
Sprawl
and
Sustainable
TransportaCon
Federal
GE
goals:
climate
change
mi8ga8on,
cleaner
air
Subsidies,
Externalized
costs
(smog,
GHGs…)
Municipal
ac8ons:
Development
charge
&
property
tax
adjustments
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14. Policy
Alignment:
Sprawl
and
Sustainable
TransportaCon
Federal
GE
goals:
climate
change
mi8ga8on,
cleaner
air
Reformed
subsidies,
costs
internalized
(user
fees,
c-‐price…)
Municipal
ac8ons:
Development
charge
&
property
tax
adjustments
Making markets work for the environment 14
15. David
Thompson
Director,
Sustainable
Communi8es
Sustainable
Prosperity
dthompson@sustainableprosperity.ca
www.sustainableprosperity.ca
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