The Canadian Climate Policy Partnership

(C2P2)

The Canadian Climate Policy Partnership (C2P2), led by Dr. Jennifer Winter, provides publicly accessible information on Canadian climate policies, supporting effective strategies to adapt and mitigate climate change, improving resilience, and helping Canada meet its net-zero emissions target.

The goal of C2P2 is to engage in data-driven research on and analysis of Canadian climate policies and enable the same in a broader network of researchers, informing necessary efforts to develop effective, coherent policy to meet Canada's climate goals.

C2P2 brings together Canadian academics from different disciplines, policy-makers, and policy-shapers to create a "one-stop" database and digital platform on the climate commitments, targets, policies, and investments from different orders of government in Canada. C2P2 facilitates improved understanding of the state of climate policy in Canada, reduces the burden of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and improves research and policy capacity in meeting Canada's climate goals.

C2P2 outcomes include the following:

A downloadable comprehensive database of 341 federal, provincial and territorial climate-change-mitigation policies in Canada. The C2P2 inventory builds on past work by Navius Research Inc. and the Canadian Climate Institute.

A searchable and interactive web-based database hosted by 440 Megatonnes, a project of the Canadian Climate Institute.

A methods document explaining our process for developing the database and the decision process for included policies.

If you would like to learn more about C2P2, please contact us at C2P2@ucalgary.ca. You can provide feedback on the direction of future research and expansion of the inventory by emailing us at C2P2@ucalgary.ca.

C2P2 Research Highlights

A 440 Megatonnes Insight Blog on what we know about the state of Canadian climate policy using the database.

Policy Options: Climate policy is missing in action in Saskatchewan election

C2P2 In the News

CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/effective-climate-policies-1.7301998.

Radio interview on "A Little More Conversation with Ben O'Hara-Byrne " (Corus network)

Funders and Partners

Partners and funders include the Canadian Climate Institute, CIRANO (Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations), the Government of British Columbia, the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, Mitacs, Quebec Net Positif, Royal Roads University, the Smart Prosperity Institute, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Calgary, and the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.