Will Canada become an energy superpower in this future? Despite recent federal backtracks and the breaking of climate commitments in the name of oil and gas, Canada’s adoption of renewables hasn’t stopped, but its growth has not been…
The federal money offered to oil sands producers for a pipeline, if shifted to solar panels, would produce enough electricity to meet the electricity needs of 85% of all Canadian households. Here’s the math from the back of…
The Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act – Explainer by Carolina Rodriguez The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act was first introduced to Parliament in 2020 as Bill C-12 and later adopted in June 2021. The Act is Canada’s foundational climate…
Two Recent Polls – from across all of Canada by Abacus Data on behalf of Sierra Club and from 11 Key Ridings by Liaison Strategies on behalf of the Canadian Climate Action Network show Canadians don’t support any…
Cutting and pausing the target carbon price will sacrifice thousands of clean economy jobs. Falling ROI is already pushing sustainability and carbon-cost-incentivized investments off a cliff. This puts Canada’s clean economy at immediate risk — a sector that…
The retreat from sustainability may look like caution, but Monika Freyman warns it risks undoing decades of hard-won progress. In her article, she argues that growing corporate and investor silence on climate and sustainability is creating a dangerous…
Amid the urgency to scale climate solutions, this article argues that who gets funded matters as much as what gets funded. It highlights the persistent underrepresentation of women, non-binary, and BIPOC founders in climate tech, showing how unequal…
Canada’s Clean Economy Is Hiding in Plain Sight… People sometimes see me on the Clean50 stage, speaking off-the-cuff about incoming honourees or projects, and assume I do big audience public speaking all the time. I don’t. The Clean50…
Amid so much climate fatigue, its important to be reminded that progress is not only possible but already underway. Bruce Ander highlights a set of district energy projects that cut through the usual cynicism by showing what decarbonization…
We all know words matter. Words matter so much that there are some we refer to only by a single letter. There are countless slurs — racial, religious, sexual — so dangerous and so loaded that most of…
