Friday, April 25, 2025
Investments for energy efficient cement production in Quebec
The Government of Canada announced an investment of up to $17.5 million from the federal Low Carbon Economy Fund and $28.5 million from the Government…
Governance
Atura Power plans hydrogen feasibility study in Nanticoke
Atura Power has signed an agreement with Imperial to study the potential for hydrogen production in Nanticoke, Ontario. The study will focus on the commercial…
Book Review: Sustainable Business Handbook
Guidance on what it takes to support a claim of being a “sustainable business” is widely available but not always comprehensive or clear. A new…
Call for Code challenge urges developers to create sustainable tech solutions
Call for Code Creator David Clark Cause, in partnership with founding partner IBM, United Nations Human Rights and the Linux Foundation, launched the 2022 Call for Code Global…
Public Policy Forum honours emerging environmental leader Autumn Peltier
Six exceptional Canadians are being honoured for their contributions to public policy and good governance by the Public Policy Forum at its Canada Growth Summit…
Coalition launches the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign
On April 27 at Queen’s Park, a broad coalition of more than 125 groups from across Ontario, representing more than 475,000 people, launched the Ontario…
Alberta launches Clean Hydrogen Centre of Excellence
The Alberta government is investing $50 million to create the new Clean Hydrogen Centre of Excellence, which will drive innovation in the production, deployment and…
$300M for clean energy projects in Indigenous, rural and remote communities
Yesterday, at the First Nations Major Project Coalition’s Annual industry engagement event, Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced a $300 million investment toward capacity-building…
Hydro-Québec export project with NYC receives green light
Regulators have given the green light to the $4.5 billion transmission line project that will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City — a critical…
Making electric vehicles more affordable for Quebeckers
The Government of Canada has announced a plan to invest $547.5 million over four years to launch a new purchase incentive program for medium- and…
Breaking ground for Ontario’s first net zero community centre
Today, the City of Toronto broke ground for the new North East Scarborough Community Recreation & Child Care Centre. The centre, which is located south…
What’s the true cost of electric versus gas vehicles?
With the new reality of record high gas prices combined with the increasing awareness about the impacts of climate change, more Canadians are considering the…
Roadmap to recruit soil in combatting climate crisis
A new report calls on Canada to use the potential of soil to help combat the climate crisis. The report includes detailed, science-based soil- health…
Conference explores the intersection of ESG and brownfields redevelopment
Driven by growing cultural and social awareness, Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) considerations are becoming increasingly significant in the real estate investment sector. On April…
Senate introduces bill to align financial and climate commitments
Senator Rosa Galvez recently introduced Bill S-243, the Climate-Aligned Finance Act, a piece of legislation to align the activities of federal financial institutions and federally-regulated entities…
Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) network establishes seven centres
The Federation of Canadian Municipality (FCM) Green Municipal Fund announced a milestone for its Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) network, shifting from start-up phase to…
Research shows energy efficiency programs will help achieve net-zero
A new report by Efficiency Canada, a research group based at Carleton University, shows how federal investment in provincial low-income energy efficiency programming could help…
From waste to wealth cleantech solutions presented at GLOBE
Hydra Energy, the world’s first company to deliver a hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to a paying fleet customer, took part in last week’s GLOBE Forum with…
Time to end fossil fuel era, advises UN’s IPCC
Governments, businesses, industry and financial institutions around the world must significantly increase efforts if the world is to avoid heating beyond 1.5 C over the…
Report on Canada’s commitments on climate and reconciliation
Climate change is front and centre in the hearts and minds of Canadians, coast-to-coast. In the crucial fight to save our planet, arguably, one of…
UN appoints Catherine McKenna chair of net-zero expert group
Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the world has seen an increasing number of net-zero commitments, in particular from the private and financial…
CaGBC to oversee LEED certification and credentialing in Canada
The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) and Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) recently announced that CAGBC will provide direct oversight of LEED® green building certification…
Unlocking sustainable energy resources in Ontario
As Ontario’s energy needs increase, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) and Ontario Energy Board (OEB) are working with local electricity distributors and technology companies…
Environment minister releases roadmap for $9B emissions reduction plan
Today the Government of Canada released a detailed, sector-by-sector roadmap for curbing emissions in the country by 40 per cent below 2005 levels by the…