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Title: Can Canada Expand Oil and Gas Production, Build Pipelines and Keep Its Climate Change Commitments?
Description: This study assesses the consequences of several scenarios of expansion in the oil and gas sector in terms of the amount that the non–oil and gas sectors of the economy would need to reduce emissions to meet Canada’s Paris commitments. It finds Canada cannot meet its global climate commitments while at the same time ramping up oil and gas extraction and building new export pipelines. The study also reviews existing pipeline and rail capacity for oil exports under the cap on oil sands emissions announced last year by the Alberta government (set at 100 million tonnes (Mt) per year) and finds Canada has enough capacity to handle the 45% increase in oil sand production this would entail. It also takes a close look at oil price trends, and finds that new pipelines with tidewater access are unlikely to confer a significant price premium, as is widely believed.
Type: technical report
Date: June 2016
Identifier: 978-1-77125-289-8
Identifier (PID): yul:1156012

Title: Capital Markets and Sustainability: Investing in a Sustainable Future
Description: This is the final report of the NRTEE Capital Markets and Sustainability Task Force. The report is built around 3 themes: a) the need for regulatory efficiency of financial services —in particular, the need to remove barriers to capital flows ; (b) the need to foster corporate investment in technology and efficiency ; and (c) the importance of enhanced disclosure and transparency on what is becoming recognized by legal, accounting, and regulatory authorities, as well as by the capital markets, as sources of novel risk, including social and environmental issues, to corporations and investors. Recommendations are made around all themes: for increased social and environmental transparency, they include changes to university level education (e.g. MBA) to accelerate the acceptance of the need for transparency and corporate disclosure.
Identifier (PID): yul:827222

Title: Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada
Description: This report recommends a unified carbon pricing policy for Canada—a policy aimed at meeting one clear objective: the greatest amount of carbon emission reductions, at the least economic cost. Following more than a year of research and consultation, our report sets out what we believe is the most effective, realistic, and achievable carbon pricing policy for current and anticipated Canadian circumstances.
Identifier (PID): yul:826541

Title: Sustainable development : Getting there from here : A Handbook for union environment committees and joint labour-management envi
Description: The handbook explains environmental issues from a workers’ perspective, and provides guidance on applications in a workplace context. The handbook builds on the experience of Canadian unions at the local, regional and national levels, including the CAW, USW, and CEP, emphasizing the importance of cooperation.
Identifier (PID): yul:823951

Title: Greenhouse gas emissions from urban transportation: Backgrounder
Identifier (PID): yul:823589

Title: Costs to Canada’s Health Care System of Climate Change Impacts on Health ( Annex A )
Description: The objective of this work is to provide additional information on the public sector health care costs of morbidity estimates in "Costing Climate Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Study on Human Health", so as to express the estimated ozone related, climate change-induced morbidity cases as a cost to the Canadian public health care system.
Identifier (PID): yul:776500

Title: Planning for Prosperity: Building Canada's Low-Carbon Growth Plan
Description: A "Stakeholder consultation session", with particular emphasis on the impacts of a low carbon economy in the Western provinces.
Identifier (PID): yul:776498

Title: Reality Check: The State of Climate Progress in Canada
Description: This report, requested by the federal Minister of the Environment, reminds us of how far the country has come, but also of how far it must go. The report provides a thorough history of federal and provincial climate policy, as well as emissions trends.
Identifier (PID): yul:577112

Title: Paying the Price: The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada
Description: The 4th report in the Climate Prosperity series. The report quantifies the economic costs of inaction if Canada fails to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, specifically on timber supply, coastal areas, human health, and ecosystem. It makes recommendations for future research on economic costs. Concluding statement: " Examining long-term economic costs of climate change to Canada raises the spectre of two futures: one where the world acts — and keeps global warming to 2°C by 2050 as world leaders have pledged — and one where it doesn’t and climate change impacts grow and accelerate beyond targets. At slightly under 2°C of global warming, the economic costs of climate change to Canada in 2050 would be between $21 billion and $43 billion with no adaptive action taken; costs could be at the lower end of range if economic growth slowed as part of domestic mitigation or for other reasons. If the world acts to limit warming to 2°C, future costs could stabilize around this 2050 level since emissions growth would have been dampened and plateaued to reach this new global reality."
Identifier (PID): yul:577111

Title: Degrees of Change: Climate Warming and the Stakes for Canada
Description: Report 2 in the Climate Prosperity series. An overview of the potential changes to Canada and the impacts on human activity for the resource and service sectors - e.g. increased cruise ship tourism in the Arctic seas; increased recreational land use; uneven forestry impacts across the country.
Identifier (PID): yul:576887

Title: Measuring up: Benchmarking Canada's competitiveness in a low carbon world
Description: This is the first in a series of reports from the two-year policy program called Climate Prosperity. In the global transition to a low-carbon economy, Canadian competitiveness is at stake. The report creates a Low Carbon Performance Index, and ranks Canada against other G8 countries in areas such as emissions and energy, skills, investment, innovation and governance.
Identifier (PID): yul:576673

Title: Geared for Change: Energy efficiency in Canada's commercial building sector
Identifier (PID): yul:576672

Title: Comparative Study of U.K. and Canadian Pension Fund Transparency Practices
Description: This report was commissioned by Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy to explore how pension fund transparency practices with respect to social, environmental and ethical (SEE) issues in the United Kingdom differ from those in Canada. In particular, it addresses the antecedents and impact of U.K. policies mandating the inclusion of a fund’s approach to SEE issues in its statement of investment principles (SIP).
Identifier (PID): yul:1127528

Title: Development of Options for A Vehicle Feebate in Canada - Final Report
Description: This consultants' report for the National Round table on the Environment and the Economy was prepared in cooperation with Resources for the Future and DesRosiers Automotive Consulting. In the 2005 Federal Budget, the Government of Canada tasked the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) to develop options for a vehicle feebate for Canada. The options were to be revenue neutral, to apply to all light-duty vehicles, and to be flexible to adapt to changing circumstances. The Budget set out A Framework for Evaluation of Environmental Tax Proposals as the basis for evaluating this and future environmental proposals involving the tax system. In response, the NRTEE commissioned this study, whose objectives are to: understand the nature of the motor vehicle market in Canada and trends, including the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the industry and the Government on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; identify the key feebate options that meet the mandatory parameters identified by the Government; and, assess the options against the criteria established in the Budget 2005 Framework.
Identifier (PID): yul:1127526

Title: Ecological Fiscal Reform and Energy Case Study on Renewable Grid-Power Electricity - Final Baseline and Economic Report
Description: This case study provides an analysis of the role that fiscal policy can play in promoting the longterm development of Canada’s renewable energy sector, with a view of promoting and, where appropriate, accelerating the use of renewable energy technologies that leads to long-term reductions in energy-based carbon emissions. This case study addresses the renewable energy (RE) sector and explores the ‘traction" of fiscal instruments to improve the uptake or deployment of grid-power renewable energy technologies (RETs) in Canada. Consistent with the broader goal of the EFR program, the objectives of this case study are twofold: - To deliver pragmatic, policy-relevant recommendations on how fiscal policy can be used to promote sustainable development; and - To synthesize the lessons learned from each case study into a "State of the Debate" report that will assess the potential use of fiscal policy in promoting long-term decarbonisation.
Identifier (PID): yul:1127525

Title: Facing the elements: Building business resilience in a changing climate: case studies
Description: In a report directed to the business community, NRTEE presents case studies of the practical adaptation actions, experience and advice of what they call "climate pacesetters". The thirteen Canadian firms profiled are: B.C.Hydro, Cameco, Coca Cola Canada, EBA Engineering Consultants, Entenergy, Hydro Quebec, J.D. Irving, Munich RE, Rio Tinto Alcan, Royal Bank of Canada, Summerhill Pyramid Winery, Tolco Industries, and Whistler Blackcomb. Companion documents: A Business Primer and an Advisory Report to Government, with research and recommendations on how government can support greater business adaptation to climate change.
Identifier (PID): yul:1127524