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FINDING SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

OUR PROCESS

Our process helps Canada achieve sustainable development solutions that integrate environmental and economic considerations to ensure the lasting prosperity and well-being of our nation.

RESEARCH

We rigorously research and conduct high quality analysis on issues of sustainable development. Our thinking is original and thought provoking.

CONVENE

We convene opinion leaders and experts from across Canada around our table to share their knowledge and diverse perspectives. We stimulate debate and integrate polarities. We create a context for possibilities to emerge.

ADVISE

We generate ideas and provide realistic solutions to advise governments, Parliament and Canadians. We proceed with resolve and optimism to bring Canada’s economy and environment closer together.

Climate Prosperity

THE ECONOMIC RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CANADA

Climate change and Canada’s response to it have profound economic implications for our nation’s future. There are risks but there are also opportunities. We need to position ourselves to compete and prosper in an increasingly carbon-constrained global economy. Ensuring Canada is well-prepared to adapt and prosper as part of this new reality is the focus of a comprehensive policy research initiative by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE), called Climate Prosperity.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Our aim is to provide insight for Canadians and policy advice to governments on both the economic risks and the economic opportunities for Canada associated with a warming planet. We need to think differently about what this will mean, not just to our economy today, but to a changing economy for the future. Preparing ourselves for the transition to economic success in a low-carbon-emission economy is critical to help maintain our standard of living and ensure jobs for today’s and tomorrow’s generations. Most of all, we need to change how Canadians see and think about climate change – from risk to opportunity, from cost to investment, from today to tomorrow. This is not just about coping with climate change, but prospering through it.

Climate change is a long-term challenge requiring long-term thinking. Thinking ahead will help determine what this will mean in the long-run for Canadians and what governments can and must do to get ready and help secure our future in a climate-changing world. The NRT’s landmark program – the first and most comprehensive Canadian public policy analysis yet on the economics of climate change – will help do just that.

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