As the leading Canadian authority on climate change, Mark Jaccard has been touted as "the sixth most frequently interviewed professor in the country," and dubbed "Canada's best mind on the environment," by Roy MacGregor.

A former chair of the BC Utilities Commission, Simon Fraser University economics professor Mark Jaccard received the Donner Prize for his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy (Cambridge Press, 2005). The $35,000 prize recognizes Canada's best public policy thinking, writing and research. Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. and chair of the Donner Foundation, presented the award to Jaccard in Toronto on April 27, 2006.

A professor in the school of resource and environmental management, and a globally-known analyst and commentator on energy issues, Jaccard was on the Donner short list in 2002, for The Cost of Climate Policy, co-written with SFU colleagues John Nyboer and Bryn Sadownik. Jaccard argues in Sustainable Fossil Fuels that fossil fuels can continue as a key energy source because the technological capability exists to use them without emitting pollutants.

Co-written with Jeffrey Simpson and SFU researcher Nic Rivers, Mark Jaccard's Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge looks at the political hurdles that have prevented Canada from meeting its planetary obligations regarding global warming, as well as possible solutions that include the SIMS planned simulation system, developed by Jaccard and implemented around the world.

BOOKS:

Designing Canada's Low-Carb Diet: Options for Effective Climate Policy (C.D. Howe Institute, 2007).

Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge (Douglas Gibson Books, 2007).

Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy (Cambridge Press, 2005).

The Cost of Climate Policy (UBC Press). With John Nyboer and Bryn Sadownik.

[BCBW 2008] "Environment"