Canadian Climate Politics
Policies and government incentives are essential to make it or break it in any sector and cleantech is not an exception. In a very dynamic and competitive global cleantech sector to fight climate change, Climate Positive Energy has supported projects to develop a better understanding and recommendations of what need to be done to ensure climate goals are met while economic growth is enabled through policies.
Accounting for the Extractivist Footprint of EVs: A Comparative Analysis of Local and Transnational ESG Standards Governing Lithium Production Read More
Assessing the Solutions: Understanding impact assessment frameworks for Nature-based Solutions in Canada “Nature-based Solutions are a novel approach to climate adaptation, but we lack coherent frameworks for assessing whether Nature-based Solutions are producing effective and meaningful results. I seek to undertake a comparative analysis of different assessment frameworks used in Canada to monitor and evaluate Nature-based Solutions projects. This research will contribute to the development of scrupulous and regionally relevant impact assessment… Read More- Beyond technological fixes – Fostering justice and equity in the transition to sustainable heating technologies in Canada (FITTING) Daniela’s research critically analyses how governance and politics affect a socially just, inclusive, and equitable access to sustainable and affordable heating technologies in Canada. It assesses how the impacts and benefits of these technologies are distributed along different social groups. The research intends to highlight the urgency of looking beyond technological fixes and taking different and transformative approaches in the… Read More
- Captured: Green Innovation, Social Values, and the Quest to Solve Climate Change, 1996-2021 Mircea’s research is titled: “Captured: Green Innovation, Social Values, and the Quest to Solve Climate Change, 1996-2021”. Read More
- Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Deployment Solar Photovoltaic (PV) technologies present significant financial and environmental benefits for residents and communities, however, there continue to be disparities in the adoption of PV technologies. This research will seek to understand the role of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in the implementation of PV technologies in order to determine how CBOs could improve access to solar technologies within communities. Since previous… Read More
- Designing Toward Sustainable and Equitable Agricultural Labor and Technologies To fulfill Canada’s commitment to a just transition for tackling climate change, we must make unified and balanced decisions regarding food system management. Over the next year, Olivia will support this mission through continuing her community-engaged, multidisciplinary research, which will include an audit of clean energy agricultural technologies in Canada and two participatory design workshops: one with migrant farmworkers and… Read More
- Exploring equity in the climate action plans of the world’s “most sustainable” cities Garrett Morgan MSc., MScPl., LEED GA, WELL AP is a doctoral candidate and course instructor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto where his dissertation research explores the role of equity in the development and implementation phases of municipal climate action plans. Outside of the academy, he is an urban planner, governance strategist, communications advisor,… Read More
- Grounding models: co-creating agent-based models to understand TransformTO goals Addressing the TransformTO Modelling Advisory Group 2017 final report of low carbon goals and strategies through participatory modelling, where stakeholders from across affected communities work together to understand and evaluate the impact of the policies by designing and running experiments in “virtual worlds” using a simulation technique. Read More
- Interrogating the Intersection of Colonialism, Capitalism, and Speciesism in Hindering Climate-Positive Energy Systems: A Critical Analysis through Sport and Animal Studies “To challenge the impact of ecological colonialism and capitalist imperialism in sport spaces, my research project will use a combination of critical sport and animal studies to critically examine the role that colonialism and speciesism play in (re)producing environments in which climate positive energy systems are not possible while white supremacist, capitalist, and anthropocentric understandings of the earth persist.” Read More
- Just Mitigation?: Applying a climate justice approach to the implementation of mitigation policies in growing cities in Southeast Asia Comparing two different models of GHG emissions reduction, as implemented by municipal governments in Southeast Asian secondary cities, to better understand how they impact marginalized communities. Read More
- Performance matters: Augmenting analyses of residential solar PV deployment and distribution with system performance data Providing actionable policy recommendations for governments to ensure that residential solar PV contributes to a rapid and just energy transition. Read More
- Plastic Peace: Assessing Agency in Developing Countries for a Pioneering Plastics Treaty In November 2022, the United Nations approved the creation of the first global Plastics Treaty to regulate single-use plastics worldwide. In as much as this is a significant milestone for net-zero emissions, it is essential that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee currently working on the agreement properly takes into account the different socio-economic contexts of developing countries to ensure that such… Read More
- The dynamics of lithium mining for a clean energy transition in Québec, Canada Amalie’s independent research operates in parallel with her work as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on a team at the University of Guelph and the University of Toronto, with partners at the University of Sydney and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project examines lithium extraction across worldwide jurisdictions. Read More
- The political economy of convertible firms: Electric utilities and automakers in climate politics “Heya! I'm a British guy going into the 5th (eek) year of my PhD in Poli Sci. I work on climate politics, and my dissertation project involves looking at the climate behaviour of a leading group of global automakers and electric utilities from 2005 to 2021. Before grad school I worked in financial technology for four years in Hong Kong.… Read More
