Sept. 6, 2023
Climate Policy partnership will create comprehensive database
In an effort to combat climate change, Canada has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. However, there is no one stop shop with complete, standardized, and up-to-date data and information on Canadian climate policies. This can hamper effective public policy analysis.
A Canadian project is looking to fill this gap with the Canadian Climate Policy Partnership and its Carbon Reduction Policy Tracker, a long-term partnered research initiative to measure policy stringency, coverage, and interactions in Canada. This research partnership is led by Dr. Jennifer Winter, PhD, from the University of Calgary, along with a network of 20 climate policy scholars and seven partners.
Government of Canada funding
On Aug. 29, 2023, the Government of Canada announced investment in a number of researchers across the country. Among the funding, two UCalgary projects have received a Partnership Development Grant (PDG) — a grant that promotes projects focused on designing and testing new partnership strategies to develop best practices or models.
Winter's project and a project submitted by Dr. Michael Hart, PhD, which aims to establish an Elder-led framework of information governance, are the two innovative projects acknowledged and funded through the PDG. The focus of PDG grants is on collaborative partnerships.
UCalgary also received 19 Insight Grants in the faculties of Arts, Law, Nursing, Social Work, and the Haskayne School of Business, valued at over $2 million. This program builds knowledge and understanding about people, societies, and the world. See a full list of Insight grants at the bottom of this article.
“Our researchers are addressing complex societal issues, and starting something profoundly influential that extends beyond our university to the larger community,” says Dr. William Ghali, vice-president (research). “These SSHRC grants support our scholars in two key components of research — advancing and creating new knowledge, and building collaborative partnerships to mobilize our knowledge.
“These projects demonstrate the crucial role of academic institutions in tackling real-world problems.”
Climate change, like other public policy areas, is intricate and multi-faceted. Therefore, projects like the Canadian Climate Policy Partnership, which provide comprehensive data, are of high importance.
“Better public understanding translates into improved policy development,” says Winter, an associate professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy.
“Furthermore, policy-makers, researchers, and businesses often duplicate efforts in locating this information. Our project aims to simplify this process by offering comprehensive, understandable, and publicly available data, information, and analysis on Canada’s climate policies.”
Winter says the Canadian Climate Policy Partnership will provide publicly accessible and collated information on Canadian national and subnational climate policies and detailed analysis of the types, stringency, and design elements of climate policy implemented across jurisdictions in Canada.
Ultimately this partnered research project will improve policy transparency for businesses and households; catalyze new research on Canadian climate policy and emissions-reduction efforts; and build Canada’s research expertise.
UCalgary’s SSHRC Partnership Development Grant recipients
- Michael Hart, Office of Indigenous Engagement: “Elders' Declaration of Information Governance Project”
- Jennifer Winter, Faculty of Arts and School of Public Policy: “Canadian Climate Policy Partnership”
UCalgary’s SSHRC Insight grant recipients
- Dr. Gwendolyn Blue, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Responsible Governance of Gene Editing of Animals: Situating and Expanding Debates in a Canadian Context
- Dr. Joshua Bourdage, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Impression Management in the Workplace: A Dynamic Investigation Across Contexts
- Dr. Brandy Callahan, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Distracted, Hyperactive, and Thriving: Factors Supporting Cognitive and Affective Functioning in Adults with ADHD
- Dr. Linda Duffett-Leger, PhD, Faculty of Nursing: Development and Validation of Enabling Quality Interactions with Parents (EQUIP): An Automated Software that Codes Parent-Child Interaction Quality
- Dr. Rob Huebert,PhD, Faculty of Arts: The New Arctic Security Threat Environment (NASTE): Understanding Arctic Security in the Return of Great Power Politics
- Dr. Aamir Jamal, PhD, Faculty of Social Work: Transforming Masculinities: A Global Study on Muslim Men Participating in Gender Justice and Violence Against Women (VAW) Prevention
- Dr. Mohammad Keyhani, PhD, Haskayne School of Business: A Theory of Digital Portfolio Micropreneurship
- Dr. Aravind Magesan, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Economic Dynamics of Non-State Armed Groups
- Dr. Graham McCaffrey, PhD, Faculty of Nursing: Nursing and Humanities: An Evolving Relationship
- Dr. Lucija Muehlenbachs, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Inequities in Oil Production
- Dr. Elizabeth Paris, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Economic Surveillance and Artisanal Production at the Ancient Maya City of Tenam Puente, Mexico
- Dr. David Sigler, PhD, Faculty of Arts: The Erotics of Rule-Following in British Romanticism
- Dr. Timothy Stapleton, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Ways of War in Conquest Era Nigeria (c.1860-1930)
- Dr. Stephan Staubli Muehlenbachs, PhD, Faculty of Arts: The Value of Disability Insurance
- Dr. Piers Steel, PhD, Haskayne School of Business: The Effect of Rewards on Motivation, Effort and Performance
- Dr. Trevor Tombe, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Economic Volatility and Regional Integration in Canada
- Dr. Alexander Whalley, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Scientific Labour Markets and Innovation
- Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Biographies of Enslaved Black People in Colonial Canada
- David Wright, LLM, Faculty of Law: Building a Janus Perspective of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Impact Assessment
Mkutano wa Mkataba wa Mabadiliko ya Hali ya Hewa wa 2021 utaanzisha mfumo wa kimataifa wa kujadili hali ya hewa, ambao unazingatia suala la mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa na kupunguza uzalishaji wa gesi za chafu. Hata hivyo, hakuna duka moja la kuacha na data kamili, ya kawaida, na ya kisasa na habari juu ya sera za hali ya hewa za Canada. Hii inaweza kuzuia uchambuzi mzuri wa sera za umma. Utafiti wa Canada unaangalia kujaza pengo hili na Ushirikiano wa Sera ya Hali ya Hewa ya Canada na Mfuatiliaji wa Sera ya Kupunguza Kaboni, mpango wa utafiti wa muda mrefu wa ushirikiano wa kupima ukali wa sera, chanjo, na mwingiliano nchini Canada. Ushirikiano huu wa utafiti unaongozwa na Dk Jennifer Winter, PhD, kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Calgary, pamoja na mtandao wa wasomi wa sera za hali ya hewa 20 na washirika saba. Serikali ya Canada imetoa fedha kwa ajili ya utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti wa utafiti. Miongoni mwa fedha hizo, miradi miwili ya UCalgary imepokea ruzuku ya maendeleo ya ushirikiano (PDG) - ruzuku ambayo inakuza miradi inayolenga kubuni na kupima mikakati mpya ya ushirikiano ili kuendeleza mazoea bora au mifano. Mradi wa Winter na mradi uliwasilishwa na Dk Michael Hart, PhD, ambao unakusudia kuanzisha mfumo wa uongozi wa habari unaoongozwa na wazee, ni miradi miwili ya ubunifu iliyotambuliwa na kufadhiliwa kupitia PDG. Msaada wa PDG unazingatia ushirikiano wa ushirikiano. UCalgary pia ilipokea misaada ya 19 ya ufahamu katika vyuo vikuu vya Sanaa, Sheria, Uuguzi, Kazi ya Jamii, na Shule ya Biashara ya Haskayne, yenye thamani ya zaidi ya $ 2 milioni. Programu hii hujenga maarifa na uelewa kuhusu watu, jamii, na ulimwengu. Tazama orodha kamili ya misaada ya Insight chini ya makala hii. "Watafiti wetu wanashughulikia masuala magumu ya kijamii, na kuanza kitu kinachokuwa na ushawishi mkubwa ambao unaenea zaidi ya chuo kikuu chetu kwa jamii kubwa", anasema Daktari William Ghali, makamu wa rais (utafiti). <unk>Hizi SSHRC ruzuku kusaidia wasomi wetu katika vipengele viwili muhimu vya utafiti <unk> maendeleo na kujenga maarifa mapya, na kujenga ushirikiano wa ushirikiano wa kuhamasisha maarifa yetu. <unk>Mipango hii inaonyesha jukumu muhimu la taasisi za kitaaluma katika kukabiliana na matatizo ya ulimwengu halisi.<unk> Mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kama maeneo mengine ya sera za umma, ni tata na multifaceted. Kwa hiyo, miradi kama vile Ushirikiano wa Sera ya Hali ya Hewa ya Canada, ambayo hutoa data kamili, ni muhimu sana. "Uelewevu bora wa umma unatafsiriwa katika maendeleo bora ya sera", anasema Winter, profesa msaidizi katika Idara ya Uchumi na Shule ya Sera ya Umma. <unk>Zaidi ya hayo, watunga sera, watafiti, na wafanyabiashara mara nyingi hufanya kazi mbili katika kupata habari hii. "Lengo la mradi huu ni ""kuwezesha mchakato huu kwa kutoa data, habari na uchambuzi wa kina, inayoeleweka na inapatikana kwa umma juu ya sera za hali ya hewa za Canada."" - Winter, Mshiriki wa Ushirikiano wa Sera ya Hali ya Hewa ya Canada, ""itatoa habari ya umma na iliyounganishwa juu ya sera za hali ya hewa za kitaifa na chini ya kitaifa na uchambuzi wa kina wa aina, ukali na muundo wa sera za hali ya hewa zilizotumika katika mamlaka zote za Canada.""" Hatimaye, mradi huu wa utafiti wa ushirikiano utaongeza uwazi wa sera kwa biashara na kaya; kuchochea utafiti mpya juu ya sera ya hali ya hewa ya Canada na juhudi za kupunguza uzalishaji; na kujenga utaalam wa utafiti wa Canada. "Mwanzoni mwa mwaka wa 2020, UCLRC ilitoa ""Msaada wa Uendelezaji wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano wa Ushirikiano.""" Brandy Callahan, PhD, Kitivo cha Sanaa: Kupoteza, Hyperactive, na Thriving: Sababu za Kuunga mkono Utendaji wa Kuzoea na Affective katika Watu Wazima na ADHD - Linda Duffett-Leger, PhD, Kitivo cha Uuguzi: Maendeleo na Uhalali wa Kuwezesha Maingiliano ya Ubora na Wazazi (EQUIP) - Programu ya Kiotomatiki ambayo Inashughulikia Ulingani wa Wazazi na Mtoto "Mwanamke huyo, ambaye pia ni mwanafunzi wa chuo kikuu cha Uislamu, anafanya utafiti wa ""Ukosefu wa Haki ya Kijinsia na Ukatili dhidi ya Wanawake"" na ""Uchunguzi wa Kimataifa wa Wanaume wa Kiislamu"" na ""Uchunguzi wa Kimataifa wa Wanaume wa Kiislamu na Ukatili dhidi ya Wanawake"" na ""Uchunguzi wa Kimataifa wa Wanaume na Ukatili wa Wanaume na Wanawake"" na ""Uchunguzi wa Kimataifa wa Wanaume na Wanaume wa Kimataifa na Wanaume wa Kimataifa na Wanaume wa Kimataifa na Wanaume wa Kimataifa na Wanaume wa Kimataifa."""