Editor's Note: Ted Gayer, co-director of the Economic Studies program, delivered the following remarks at the Tax Policy Center's "Desperately Seeking Revenue" event on March 2, 2010.

The February issue of Thinking Ahead, the monthly newsletter of the IRPP, is now available

The Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded on December 19, 2009 without long-term targets after a 31-hour negotiating marathon. The conference, which saw the creation of the Copenhagen Accord, has been criticized as "a predictable disappointment" due to fears of economic repercussions, high domestic political stakes, and political finger-pointing.

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From January 27 to 31, 2010, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland welcomed business and political leaders from around world. The five-day event had various items on the agenda including the G20, global growth, the crisis in Haiti, global development and climate change. Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the audience in a keynote speech which outlined a strategy for continuing efforts to tackle the economic crisis and an agenda for both the G8 and G20 meetings to be held in Huntsville and Toronto respectively at the end of June 2010.

When hurricane season officially blew to a close in the Atlantic basin at the end of November, two Quebec researchers did not exhale in relief.

A University of Alberta engineering professor researching carbon storage has been awarded funding to set up a one-of-a-kind lab