Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity

Final Report on an Economic Study of Greenhouse Gas Targets and Policies for Canada

October 29, 2009
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Matthew Bramley
Former Director
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Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity is the first Canadian study of its kind to show regional impacts on employment and gross domestic product, and the first to comprehensively examine how Canada can meet a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 that goes beyond the federal government’s target.

This summary report is based on a modelling study conducted by M. K. Jaccard and Associates.

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