Kyla Tienhaara

Assistant Professor, Queen's University

About Kyla Tienhaara

Dr. Kyla Tienhaara is a Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment and an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada.

Dr. Tienhaara’s main area of interest is the intersection between environmental governance and the global economic system. One area of her work has examined investor-state disputes concerning environmental regulation that are brought to international arbitration under bilateral and regional investment agreements. Her more recent research, published in Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2018), explores the experience of Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the United States with green stimulus programs following the 2008 global financial crisis.

Her current research focuses on the Green New Deal.

4 Articles

Lessons from Australia show CCUS is about capturing public opinion and public finances, not carbon

Experience from Australia shows the CCUS technology was not designed to contribute meaningfully to emissions reductions.

Opinion | April 6th 2022

Given that last week pension funds and other asset managers in Canada and around the world rapidly dumped their Russian holdings, we know that finance can act swiftly according to ethical criteria. Colin Smith/Divest UVic

On climate change, Canada’s pension sector must demonstrate that both values and value matter

Despite Russia's attack on Ukraine showing the financial sector can act quickly, we’ve yet to see commensurate action with respect to the climate crisis.

Opinion | March 11th 2022

Ontario's newest university pension plan has a chance to get divestment right

Professors at Ontario's three largest universities are demanding their soon-to-be-merged pension fund stop investing in fossil fuels, manage divestment of existing assets and set clear and transparent targets towards decarbonizing the fund over the next two decades.

Opinion | June 7th 2021

The fossil fuel era is coming to an end, but the lawsuits are just beginning

Westmoreland Coal made a bad bet in 2013 when it purchased five coal mines in Alberta. Now it's suing Canada under NAFTA to make Canadian taxpayers pay for its mistake.

Analysis | December 19th 2018