Breaking Climate Inertia: A "Radically" Practical Approach

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 7:00 PM EDT (UTC–04:00)
May
6

The vast majority of Canadians agree, better climate policy is needed in Canada. However the limited discussion around policy solutions is highly polarized and regionally divisive. Chris Ragan will discuss a new middle-ground approach that addresses two critical questions: What is the most cost-effective way to achieve greenhouse gas reductions that aligns with our economic prosperity? And what is the most pragmatic way to achieve those reductions in the context of our highly diverse Canadian federation? 

Event Speaker

Christopher Ragan has been a professor of economics at McGill University since 1989. He is also a research fellow at the C. D. Howe Institute where, from 2010 through 2013, he held the institute’s David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy, and for many years was a member of the institute’s Monetary Policy Council.