IMFG Director Enid Slack led a roundtable discussion entitled, “Cases and Challenges of Multilevel Metropolitan Coordination” to mayors and political leaders from Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean in Mendoza, Argentina.
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Four ways that Ontario municipalities could finance climate change projects
New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores the potential and drawbacks of green bonds, environmental impact bonds, catastrophe bonds, and green banks for Ontario municipalities Toronto, March 15, 2018 – Cities bear a disproportionate share of the economic and social costs of extreme weather and climate change because of their population […]
Find out more »Former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Gustavo Carvalho’s new IMFG Paper covered in QP Briefing
Former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Gustavo Carvalho’s new IMFG Paper (No. 37) Climate Finance for Canadian Cities: Is Debt Financing a Viable Alternative? was highlighted in a QP Briefing article entitled, “U Of T Report Urges Creative Financing Solutions To Help Address Climate Change” (subscribers only).
Find out more »IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer featured in The Beacon Herald
In the article, “Will high-speed rail divide provincial voters in Southwestern Ontario?”, IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer highlighted the potential political backlash of Ontario’s planned high-speed rail system in the upcoming provincial election.
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