Search Results for: Climate Change
Presentation | 2017
Climate Finance in Ontario: Can Debt Financing Be Green?
Gustavo Carvalho
Can debt financing be “green”? On June 21, IMFG post-doctoral fellow Gustavo Carvalho presented on climate financing in Ontario cities, looking at financial instruments and strategies that have been successfully implemented elsewhere, with a focus on green bonds, environmental impact bonds, and green banks.
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IMFG Paper | 2017
Climate Change, Floods, and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada
Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite
With a focus on urban flooding, this paper identifies and explains ways in which governments can share climate-related risks. It then evaluates whether and how these tools have been used in Calgary, Alberta, and Toronto, Ontario.
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Perspectives Paper | 2017
Reducing Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Effective Steering Strategies for City Governments
Sara Hughes
City governments in Toronto, New York City, and Los Angeles have each set ambitious GHG reduction targets, and developed programs and policies to reach these targets. This paper draws on their experiences and identifies steering strategies that have proven effective in all three cities.
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Presentation | 2017
Tackling the Storm Out of the Norm: Climate Risk Management Strategies for Cities
Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite
What tools are available to local governments seeking to share the growing risks associated with a changing climate with other levels of government and non-governmental actors?
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Presentation | 2017
PlaNYC as a change management effort
Rohit Aggarwala
As part of an ongoing series on climate change and cities, IMFG co-sponsored an event featuring speakers from Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York, who discussed their experiences with climate change mitigation and effective steering strategies for local governments.
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Presentation | 2017
Urban Climate Innovation in Toronto
Mary Pickering
As part of an ongoing series on climate change and cities, IMFG co-sponsored an event featuring speakers from Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York, who discussed their experiences with climate change mitigation and effective steering strategies for local governments.
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Presentation | 2017
Mitigating Climate Change in Los Angeles
Jonathan Parfrey
As part of an ongoing series on climate change and cities, IMFG co-sponsored an event featuring speakers from Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York, who discussed their experiences with climate change mitigation and effective steering strategies for local governments.
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Perspectives Paper | 2016
Paying for Stormwater Management: What Are the Options?
Daniella Dávila Aquije
This paper evaluates the financial tools available to fund stormwater infrastructure (property taxes, development charges or cash-in-lieu payments, grants, borrowing, and user charges), and proposes user charges as the most appropriate.
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