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Amy Taylor - Director, Ecological Fiscal Reform, Pembina Institute

Email: amyt(at)pembina.org || Phone: 403.705.4954


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Amy Taylor is the Pembina Institute's Director of Ecological Fiscal Reform. Since joining the Pembina Institute in May 2000, Amy has worked on ecological fiscal reform projects dealing with subjects such as tax and subsidy reform, economic rent from natural resources and environmental taxes. She co-organized and ran an international conference on environmental taxation and has worked with resource sector leaders to advance environmental tax shifting policy in Canada. Amy has completed international surveys of ecological fiscal reform policies and programs. She has authored and co-authored numerous reports, such as Government Spending on Canada's Oil and Gas Industry: Undermining Canada's Kyoto Commitment and When the Government is the Landlord: Economic Rent, Non-renewable Permanent Funds and Environmental Impacts Related to Oil and Gas Developments in Canada. Amy has also done extensive research on environmental resource accounting within a Genuine Progress Indicator framework. Amy holds an honours undergraduate degree in environmental science and economics and a Masters in Resource Environmental Management.