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From the Blog
Heather Millar: Stuck in the Middle: Decarbonization of New Brunswick’s electricity generation system 2010-2021
Canadian policy makers and energy scholars acknowledge that significantly reducing GHG emissions from Canada’s electricity system is a crucial step toward achieving “net-zero” emissions by 2050 (Government of Canada 2020; Dion et al. 2021). Canada is a leader globally in low-emissions intensity electricity generation (Shaffer 2021, 2) but this standing masks broad disparities between provinces […]
Sarah Sharma: Relationally Comparing the Global North and Global South: Examining Climate Resilience Across and Within Amsterdam and Dhaka
This book project is designed to examine how climate resilience policies unfold within and across two distinct cities: Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Dhaka, Bangladesh. In so doing, I build a relationally comparative framework to understand the International Political Economy and Environment (IPEE) of climate resilience in global capitalism to analyse how this policy framework unfolds […]
Amy Janzwood and Christian Elliott: Public Interventions and Private Governance Responses in Corporate Carbon Risk Disclosure
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has facilitated nearly 10,000 corporate climate risk disclosures in its twenty years of operation. Despite an influx of public authority (government-led initiatives and rules) that threatens to compete with CDP, the private governor has instead expanded its “governance space,” drawing in even greater numbers of disclosures to its platform. […]