Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI) is acting as guest editors for the new special issue of Canadian Public Policy Journal “Big Ideas for Sustainable Prosperity: Policy Innovation for Greening Growth.”
Recognizing that Canada needs to accelerate its shift to a cleaner and more sustainable economy, we brought together a group of prominent environment and economy experts for a two-day conference at the University of Ottawa, and SPI asked them to share their “big ideas” on driving Canada’s green growth transition. In collaboration with Canadian Public Policy Journal, we are releasing a special issue that captures the ideas and discussion coming out from that conference.
The authors wrote the papers featured in this special issue specifically as "big think" pieces to help spur new ideas and research questions — and as such they do not conform to typical academic articles. Rather than focusing on presenting new research (although this could help inform their arguments), we asked them to identify policy challenges or changes needed to drive greener growth, as well as point to key research questions that might help inform these changes.