Media Brief: COP26 and the implications for Canada
This media brief summarizes some of the key topics associated with the 26th Conference of the Parties held in Glasgow, U.K., until November 12, with a particular focus on relevancy for...
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New ministers’ climate leadership key to building the economy Canada needs
VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the appointment of the federal cabinet. “The recent federal election made it...
B.C.’s climate roadmap sets the right course, but the clock is ticking
VANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of B.C.’s updated climate plan. “The updated CleanBC roadmap is a...
National zero-emission vehicle standard must be a top climate priority: analysis
OTTAWA — In the run up to the recent federal election, the Liberal Party of Canada announced plans for a mandatory target requiring that half of all passenger vehicles sold in 2030 be...
Another election, another clear climate mandate
VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the results of the federal election: “While the political scorecard may look...
Poll: Fires and heatwaves creating urgency around climate issues
In the latest round of survey work by Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data, we found that a majority of Canadians saw this summer’s forest fires and temperature records as evidence that climate...
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...
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...