Will Scott
@wscott.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Policy at Simon Fraser University - School of Public Policy. Research in environmental economics, climate policy, and macro-energy systems
http://wscott.info
http://wscott.info
We are hiring! 📣 SFU's School of Public Policy is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member with expertise in Indigenous Public Policy to join us!
Details available here: sfu.ca/policy-school/job-posting
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Details available here: sfu.ca/policy-school/job-posting
Please share with your networks
#AcademicJobs #Indigenous #PublicPolicy
Job Posting
sfu.ca
October 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We are hiring! 📣 SFU's School of Public Policy is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member with expertise in Indigenous Public Policy to join us!
Details available here: sfu.ca/policy-school/job-posting
Please share with your networks
#AcademicJobs #Indigenous #PublicPolicy
Details available here: sfu.ca/policy-school/job-posting
Please share with your networks
#AcademicJobs #Indigenous #PublicPolicy
Very proud new faculty member moment to see two of my exceptional students recognized for their capstone research. Congratulations to all of this year's award recipients and grads at @sfuspp.bsky.social!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Capstone and Project Awards! The Capstone gives graduate students the opportunity to undertake independent research on a policy problem of their own choosing.
Read more about our students' projects:
www.sfu.ca/policy-schoo...
Read more about our students' projects:
www.sfu.ca/policy-schoo...
May 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Very proud new faculty member moment to see two of my exceptional students recognized for their capstone research. Congratulations to all of this year's award recipients and grads at @sfuspp.bsky.social!
Want lower power bills and a cleaner grid? Interprovincial transmission could be a true nation-building project. Great read from @blakeshaffer.bsky.social and Philipe Dunsky
If Canada is looking for nation-building projects that improve affordability, enhance reliability, reduce our reliance on the US, and set us up for the future, don’t have to look much further than interprovincial transmission.
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
Canada needs a nation-building project. It should start with interprovincial power transmission
The future is electric – and Canada should leverage its provinces’ complementary strengths and needs to build an east-to-west network and reach our full energy potential
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Want lower power bills and a cleaner grid? Interprovincial transmission could be a true nation-building project. Great read from @blakeshaffer.bsky.social and Philipe Dunsky
From me in today’s Vancouver Sun: Climate change costs British Columbians, whether or not we have a carbon tax
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e....
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e....
William Scott: Climate change costs British Columbians, whether or not we have a carbon tax
Doing nothing sticks our future selves and children with the bill.
vancouversun.com
September 17, 2024 at 1:56 PM
From me in today’s Vancouver Sun: Climate change costs British Columbians, whether or not we have a carbon tax
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e....
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e....
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“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear.
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
Canada’s Changing Climate Report
changingclimate.ca
July 1, 2024 at 1:17 PM
“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear.
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
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Awesome defense by @wscott.bsky.social using an impressive array of methods to look at emission, cost, innovation, and distributional effects of overlapping climate policies in California. Well worth the trip from the East to the South Bay!
June 5, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Awesome defense by @wscott.bsky.social using an impressive array of methods to look at emission, cost, innovation, and distributional effects of overlapping climate policies in California. Well worth the trip from the East to the South Bay!
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This chart shows annual hours of smoke-filled skies in Calgary from 1953 to 2023.
As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew in this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks.
There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.
As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew in this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks.
There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.
May 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
This chart shows annual hours of smoke-filled skies in Calgary from 1953 to 2023.
As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew in this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks.
There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.
As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew in this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks.
There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.
🚨Job posting 🚨 University of Ottawa is hiring a Tier 2 (junior) Canada Research Chair in Climate Policy and Clean Growth - great chance to work on important problems with good folks in a very underrated city
uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...
#econsky #energysky
uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...
#econsky #energysky
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Climate Policy and Clean Growth
Job Family: Academic Leadership and Faculty Union affiliation: APUO Faculty/Department: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs_FT Campus: Ottawa, ON Date Posted: décembre 05, 2023 Closin...
uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
December 5, 2023 at 10:03 PM
🚨Job posting 🚨 University of Ottawa is hiring a Tier 2 (junior) Canada Research Chair in Climate Policy and Clean Growth - great chance to work on important problems with good folks in a very underrated city
uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...
#econsky #energysky
uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...
#econsky #energysky
Big COP announcement tucked into new US methane regs: updated social cost of carbon estimate of $190/ton
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/c...
Biden Administration Unleashes Powerful Regulatory Tool Aimed at Climate
Its new estimate of the economic impact of climate change could create the legal justification for aggressive new regulations.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Big COP announcement tucked into new US methane regs: updated social cost of carbon estimate of $190/ton
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/c...
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Tap. Tap. Is this thing on? 📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2024, 15/16 March in Munich. Keynote by @NataliaFabra
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2024
Scientific Organizer: Maximilian Auffhammer
CESifo is inviting the submission of papers (or extended abstracts) for the annual conference of the CESifo Area on Energy and Climate Economics. Submissio...
www.cesifo.org
December 1, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Tap. Tap. Is this thing on? 📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2024, 15/16 March in Munich. Keynote by @NataliaFabra
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
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Young energy and environmental lawyers, we are hiring! Come work with our growing team focussed on the role of refineries in the energy transition:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/environ...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/environ...
Environmental Justice in the Energy Transition Legal Fellow – Oil Refinery Policy, Stanford Law Sc...
Environmental Justice in the Energy Transition Legal Fellow – Oil Refinery Policy The Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy...
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/environmental-justice-in-the-energy-transition-legal-fellow-–-oil-refinery-policy-stanford-law-school-23691
November 15, 2023 at 10:27 PM
Young energy and environmental lawyers, we are hiring! Come work with our growing team focussed on the role of refineries in the energy transition:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/environ...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/environ...
Thrilled to see the conversation in #econsky #energysky and #greensky emerging after the downfall of that other place.
Looking forward to chatting all things energy and climate policy, along with the occasional dog/mountain pic.
Looking forward to chatting all things energy and climate policy, along with the occasional dog/mountain pic.
October 14, 2023 at 7:37 PM
Thrilled to see the conversation in #econsky #energysky and #greensky emerging after the downfall of that other place.
Looking forward to chatting all things energy and climate policy, along with the occasional dog/mountain pic.
Looking forward to chatting all things energy and climate policy, along with the occasional dog/mountain pic.