Environmental Economist Carolyn Fischer Named Canada 150 Research Chair
View on The Globe and Mail website"Canada’s new climate-policy guru says the world will need to keep oil reserves in the ground to achieve its climate-change targets and questions the effectiveness of having a few ambitious countries going it alone with aggressive carbon pricing.
Environmental economist Carolyn Fischer is one of 20 world-leading academics that the federal government has lured to the country with lucrative Canada 150 research chairs, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan announced Thursday.
Dr. Fischer will take up her position at University of Ottawa and work with the Smart Prosperity Institute, which is based there.
Born in British Columbia but raised largely in the United States, the economist has established herself as one of the world’s leading researchers on climate-change policy. She is a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank Resources for the Future, and currently a fellow with the European Commission at Venice’s Eni Enrico Mattei foundation."