Carbon Pricing, Innovation and Productivity (PDF) is a policy briefing written by Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management and Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship and Alison Kemper, Research Associate at the Institute.

Produced by Sustainable Prosperity, a national research and policy network based at the University of Ottawa, the brief defines three key messages for Canadian environmental policy makers.

Innovation - to support long term national prosperity, Canada must address it’s poor innovation and productivity performance.

Pricing Carbon - putting a price on carbon will drive innovation and technologies that promote efficiency.

Productivity - there is a need to address the interaction between innovation, pricing carbon and the positive impact on productivity leading to prosperity.

Download the Full Article here.