Hugo Cordeau
About Hugo Cordeau
Hugo Cordeau is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on improving the social acceptability of climate policies. In the past, Cordeau researched the impact of climate change on wind power in Canada, as well the measures explaining the adoption of electric vehicles in Quebec. Cordeau has contributed to several opinion letters on environmental action and has been consulted by many political parties during the policy-making process.
The social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon quantifies the damage our daily actions have on the climate.
The elephant in the room of the federal climate plan
With the current accounting method, there is no evidence the proposed emission ceiling for oil and gas companies will lead to a decrease in greenhouse gas pollution caused by this industry, writes Hugo Cordeau, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Toronto.
The green love triangle — carbon tax, carbon leakage and the climate club
To ensure our carbon tax does not damage the Canadian economy or the climate through leakage, we need to implement carbon border adjustments, or CBAs.