asserts that Canada can establish its own cap-and-trade regime without waiting for the United States. Published by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, the paper notes that while some Canadian industries argue that they would be put at a competitive disadvantage if Canada takes the lead in climate mitigation policies. But Fischer and co-author David Sawyer saw Canada has more to gain – and possibly to lose – by implementing stricter carbon control standards.

The Howe Institute is a national nonpartisan organization that seeks to improve Canadian standards of living by fostering sound economic and social policies.

spent the past year at RFF as a visiting scholar and now joins the research staff full time. He has already published extensively and is working on issues related to the Gulf oil spill.

called the Senate’s failure to act on climate change legislation before the August recess – and the mid-term elections this fall – dismaying, in an August 10 article in ClimateWire. "What is really unfortunate in the public debate [about the value of cap and trade] is that the current Republican leadership has overthrown one of the great Republican successes in this country [under President George H.W. Bush], to capitalize on the flexibility of the marketplace in achieving regulatory change.”