Mark Jaccard

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Dr. Mark Jaccard is a professor of environmental economics in the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He is an internationally respected authority on climate change. His academic publications have won him the Best Policy Book Award and the Donner Prize. As the leading Canadian authority on climate change, he is the sixth most frequently interviewed professor in the country, and Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor has called him “currently Canada’s best mind on the environment.”

Dr. Jaccard has been a professor at Simon Fraser University since 1986. He served as Chair and CEO of the B.C. Utilities Commission (1992 to 1997), on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1993 to 1996), and on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (1996 to 2001). Until 2005 Dr. Jaccard taught ecological economics at REM and he continues to teach courses on energy and materials management, policy and energy and materials systems modeling. Currently, he is a lead author on the Global Energy Assessment (due in 2010), a member of Canada's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy and a special advisor to the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. In 2007, he won the SFU President's Award for Media and his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels, won the Donner Prize for best policy book in Canada. Dr. Jaccard is also responsible for the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre and is part owner in M.K. Jaccard and Associates Inc., a private consulting group based in Vancouver.

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Recent publications include:

  • Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge, 2007. McClelland and Stewart.
  • Burning Our Money to Warm the Planet: Canada's Ineffective Climate Policies, 2006. C.D. Howe Commentary.
  • Heterogeneous Capital Stocks and Optimal Timing for CO2 Abatement, 2006. Resource and Energy Economics.
  • Choice of Environmental Policy in the Presence of Learning by Doing, 2006. Energy Economics.
  • Useful Models for Simulating Policies to Induce Technological Change, 2006. Energy Policy.
  • Sustainable Fossil Fuels: An Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy, 2005. Cambridge University Press.
  • Simulating Policies to Induce Technological Change: The Usefulness of Energy-Economy Models Under Technological and Behavioural Uncertainty, 2005. International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy.
  • Canada's Efforts Towards Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction: A Case Study in the Limits of Voluntary Action and Subsidies, 2005. International Journal of Global Energy Issues.
  • Policies that Mobilize Producers Toward Sustainability: The Renewable Portfolio Standard and the Vehicle Emission Standard, In G. Toner, Building Canadian Capacity: Sustainable Production and the Knowledge Economy, 2005. UBC Press.
  • Energy-Environment Policy Modeling of Endogenous Technological Change with Personal Vehicles: Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Methods, 2004 Ecological Economics.
  • If Sustainability is Expensive, What Roles for Business and Government? The Case of Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Canada, 2004 Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis.
  • The Renewable Portfolio Standard, 2004 Encyclopedia of Energy.
  • The Morning After: Optimal GHG Policies for Canada’s Kyoto Obligation and Beyond, 2004 (Jaccard, Rivers and Horne) CD Howe Institute, 31 p.
  • Modeling the Cost of Climate Policy: Distinguishing Between Alternative Cost Definitions and Long-Run Cost Dynamics, 2003 The Energy Journal.
  • Methodological Contrasts in Costing GHG Abatement Policies: Optimization and Simulation Modeling of Micro-Economic Effects in Canada, 2003 Jaccard et al.), European Journal of Operations Research.
  • The Cost of Climate Policy, 2002 (Jaccard, Nyboer and Sadownik), UBC Press, 240 p. Winner of the Best Policy Book in Canada award of the National Policy Research Initiative, and shortlisted for the Donner award for best policy book in Canada.
  • Making Markets Work Better, 2002 (Jaccard and Mao), In Johansson and Goldemberg, Energy for Sustainable Development. United Nations Development Programme, 260 p. (invited book for the World Summit on Sustainable Development).
  • Sustainable Energy and Urban Form in China: the Relevance of Community Energy Management, 2001 Energy Policy.

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