Policy is most successful when informed by rigorous research, but this has often proven difficult to achieve. Nowhere is this more evident than in government's response to environmental challenges, where there is still a substantial gap between expert knowledge and policy practice.
Sustainable Prosperity was established in 2008 with the goal of bridging this gap. What started as an ambitious idea at the time, SP has grown to become Canada’s major green-economy think tank and policy research network; earning a reputation as a national leader in generating and mobilizing policy-relevant research, and contributing to the transition of a more sustainable Canadian economy.
This success is in large part due to our unique three-way approach:
The IMF Spring Meetings last week was a red-letter week in progressing The Financial System We Need. Yes, it was a week when the UNEP Inquiry’s core messages went mainstream in style.
It was the week when Hank Paulson, ex-head of US Treasury with Governor of China’s Central Bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, got together at an event co-hosted by the UNEP Inquiry and the Paulson Institute and declared to an assembly of financial market heavyweights that green finance is critical to our collective futures and core to the development of tomorrow’s financial system.
