Poll: Calgarians want an economic recovery that tackles climate change
CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s...
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Media brief: How do the federal parties stack up on climate?
Clean Energy Canada is a climate and clean energy program within the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful...
Canada’s election comes at a critical time in the climate fight
Canada is entering an election amid record-breaking wildfires, heat waves, and floods that have wiped out towns and destroyed communities. There’s no doubt this is a critical time in the climate...
Innovation can help ensure hydrogen becomes B.C.’s new natural gas
The B.C. government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and...
Unpacking the carbon intensity of hydrogen
In fall of 2020, hydrogen was big news—and it still is. In advance of the Government of Canada’s launch of a national hydrogen strategy, we released a report titled A New Hope, exploring...
Western Canadians are ready for a new economic era
You’ve probably already heard that the village of Lytton, B.C., broke Canada’s all-time temperature record not once but three days in a row earlier this summer, culminating to an unbelievable...
Ontario is undermining its vision of being an electric vehicle manufacturing centre
When it comes to cars, Ontario knows a thing or two. After all, the province ranks second only to Michigan for North American vehicle production. Ontarians will also know that the auto world is...
Canada cannot wait on Washington to meet its electric vehicle target
OTTAWA— Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the new proposed U.S. tailpipe standards: “The Biden administration’s...
Vancouver is leading the charge as Canada switches to electric vehicles by 2035
If you live in Vancouver, you are used to seeing a few things you don’t see in other big Canadian cities. Over 1,000 millimetres of rainfall per year is one thing. Teslas everywhere is another. The...
B.C.’s hydrogen strategy a first step in the global race to develop a clean hydrogen economy
VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, special advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the British Columbia government’s announcement of a new hydrogen strategy:...
Canada’s updated 100% zero-emission vehicle sales target points to a clear solution
OTTAWA— Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s announcement of new zero emission vehicle commitment:...
Energy transition is now Canada’s energy reality, so are the jobs that come with it
Last year, saw a collapse in global energy demand brought on by the pandemic—the biggest drop since the end of the Second World War. It might seem like a sombre lead for an op-ed about Canadian...