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    The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from climate change and biodiversity loss to energy insecurity, unaffordable living and rising…

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    Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada Download 1.08 MB34 pages The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from…

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    Counting the Costs and Contradictions of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

    Canada’s uneasy relationship between climate change and fossil fuel development was illustrated in November 2021 when seven atmospheric rivers hit southern BC. The “big one”…

  • Swimming against the tide

    The challenge of higher interest rates and high household debt  The run-up of interest rates since March, led by the Bank of Canada in a…

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    Severe climate events cost BC economy billions more than reported estimates

    Caroline and Paul Mosterman have seen their share of unusual weather in four-plus decades of farming. But nothing comes remotely close to what they experienced…

  • A Climate Reckoning

    The economic costs of BC’s extreme weather in 2021 Download 1.48 MB56 pages BC’s severe climate events in 2021 cost the province’s economy billions more…

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    Capping oil and gas emissions: Production declines must be central to discussion

    New federal proposals for an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry have begun a difficult and uncomfortable conversation, but one that finally gets…

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    Anticlimactic and anti-climate: BC’s oil and gas royalty review

    The BC government’s recently completed review of its royalty regime for oil and gas is both anticlimactic and anti-climate. After many months of public engagement—including…

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    The rising cost of living in BC: What’s going on and how should we respond?

    The cost of living is going up and is putting strains on household finances. BC’s headline inflation rate hit 6.7% in April, measured by the…

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