Less is More
A win for our economy, consumers, and the climate? It may sound like an elusive unicorn, but energy efficiency checks all of the above. While underreported, measures to help homes, small businesses,...
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Reports
Energy, Disrupted: Tracking the Energy Revolution 2018
Every year, Clean Energy Canada takes a fresh look at the transition to clean energy, and every year it’s amazing how much has changed—and how quickly. This year is no exception. We identified...
The Power of Procurement: Cutting the federal government’s carbon emissions
The Government of Canada has made tackling climate change a policy priority, most prominently through its Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. In September 2017, we convened a...
Stuck in Neutral: Tracking the Energy Revolution 2017
The global shift to electric cars is well underway, bringing with it big changes for drivers, industries and governments around the world. But as our peers accelerate, Canada is coasting—on both...
What a Clean Fuel Standard Can Do for Canada
Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by...
Mining for Clean Energy 2017
The rapid growth of clean energy in countries around the world has garnered significant media attention, driven by record-breaking investment and deployment. Less discussed is the associated growth...
The Power of Procurement
The Government of Canada has made tackling climate change a policy priority, most prominently through its Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Under that framework, the...
The Transition Takes Hold: Tracking the Energy Revolution 2017
In developed and developing countries alike, fossil fuels are falling out of favour as a source of electricity. They are being beat out by renewable power that is clean, increasingly cost-competitive...
Q&A: First Ministers’ Meeting on Climate Change and Clean Growth
The First Ministers’ Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to...
The Impact of B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan and Federal Carbon Price
In August 2016 the Government of British Columbia released its Climate Leadership Plan. That plan was announced as the first step in a series of actions B.C. would be taking to meet the province’s...
Canadians’ Opinions on the Clean Energy Transition
In fall 2016, Clean Energy Canada commissioned Nanos Research to conduct a survey of Canadians’ opinions on energy and climate issues, including specific policies that Canada’s leaders could...
Building on the Best Climate Policies in Canada
What would happen if you took today’s best provincial climate policies and applied them across Canada? While the prime minister and the provincial and territorial premiers work to develop a...