Bora Plumptre is a senior analyst in the federal policy program of Pembina Institute, Canada’s leading energy think tank. He conducts research to support clean energy advocacy at the national level, and works on projects promoting the accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power, and low carbon fuel standards. His professional past includes time as an opposition staffer on Parliament Hill, as a research assistant with the Smart Prosperity Institute (formerly Sustainable Prosperity), and as a project consultant for The Natural Step Canada. He has co-authored work in the Journal of Canadian Studies arguing for the need to better integrate Canada’s environmental and diplomatic history in the Arctic (and beyond).

Bora holds a joint honours degree in philosophy and history from McGill University, where he also completed the musical applications of technology program at the Schulich School of Music. While in Montreal, he interned with the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation. During studies at the University of Ottawa towards a master’s degree in environmental sustainability, he worked as a research assistant to analyze the environmental and fiscal effectiveness of Canada’s 2006 public transit tax credit. Bora likes running long-distance, sourdough crusty, and books well-bound.

Contact Bora Plumptre

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Bora Plumptre's Recent Publications

Three takeaways from Canada’s latest greenhouse gas emissions data What we’ve learned from this year’s National Inventory Report

Blog

July 12, 2018 - By Bora Plumptre

Like oxygen, nitrogen, and yes, carbon dioxide, summer is in the air. The Pembina Institute took a moment this season to review the federal government’s 25^th and most recent filing of Canada’s National Inventory Report. 

Try out your climate policy ideas Test the effects of 50+ approaches with the new Energy Policy Simulator

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March 27, 2018 - By Sara Hastings-Simon, Benjamin Israel, Bora Plumptre, Brianne Riehl, and Jeffrey Rissman & Robbie Orris of Energy Innovation

The Energy Policy Simulator is Canada’s first free, open-source tool giving you a chance to see how energy and climate policies influence emissions across the country.

Three takeaways from Canada’s clean fuel standard framework What we know so far about this marquee climate policy

Blog

Dec. 21, 2017 - By Bora Plumptre

The forthcoming clean fuel standard is the single largest piece of the mitigation effort being taken to achieve Canada’s climate target under the Paris Agreement.

What Paris Agreement negotiations mean for Canada Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes and carbon markets

Blog

Dec. 13, 2017 - By Bora Plumptre

While a great deal of attention has been paid to the politics of the Agreement — who’s in and who’s out — the less dramatic, but equally important technical work on the nuts and bolts of implementation deserves a closer look.

State of the Framework Tracking implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

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Dec. 7, 2017 - By Erin Flanagan, Bora Plumptre, Duncan Kenyon, Karen Tam Wu

Over the last year, important progress has been made to implement the policy measures in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Nevertheless, our assessment finds that implementation timelines are at risk.