Global Clean Energy Revolution Shifts Into High Gear
Each year, we produce Tracking the Energy Revolution, a companion pair of annual progress reports that detail the ongoing shift to clean energy—both within Canada’s borders and around...
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Media Release: New Report Flags the Top 10 Clean Energy Trends of 2014
TORONTO — As leaders from across the Americas kick off a three-day climate summit, a new online report details the top trends that are defining and driving the global shift to clean and renewable...
CBC’s The Exchange With Amanda Lang: “Global shift towards clean energy picking up steam, report says”
Watch Clean Energy Canada director Merran Smith discuss Tracking the Energy Revolution- Global 2015 on CBC’s The Exchange with Amanda Lang. Tracking the Energy Revolution – Global 2015 flags the...
BNN: "Forces of Change: Climate Summit of the Americas: Businesses take climate action"
The Climate Summit of the Americas is taking place in Toronto today, bringing together Pan-American jurisdictions. In this segment, BNN speaks with Al Gore’s right-hand man at Climate Reality...
Media Statement: Transit and Transportation Infrastructure Still Needs Sustainable Funding
Today Elections B.C. announced that the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation Proposal failed to secure the necessary majority support of voters in the March plebiscite. The...
Media Statement: Alberta Takes Positive First Steps Toward Greater Climate Action
Today the Government of Alberta renewed and slightly strengthened the system it relies on to encourage large polluters to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution. The Specified Gas Emitters...
Our Next Webinar: "Tracking the Energy Revolution Global 2015"
What are the 10 most significant investment, policy, technology, and societal trends and developments that both defined and propelled the worldwide shift to clean energy in 2014? To find out, join...
Solar Power Isn’t Perfect, But It’s the Best We’ve Got
You can almost set your watch to it: Every time a new and disruptive technology begins to take hold, the backlash follows. So it is with “The Darker Side of Solar Power“–an article...
Media Statement: G7 Leaders Agree to Phase Out Fossil Fuels by 2100
Today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel—host of this year’s G7 meeting—announced that G7 nations have agreed to phase out of fossil fuel combustion by the end of the century. “Deep cuts in...
Photo Essay: The Refinery of Tomorrow Rises in Quebec
Electric cars are a great option for zipping around town, but it would take a prohibitive number of batteries to power a heavier-duty rig such as a long-haul transport truck. To keep these cargo...
Take it from B.C. The Carbon Tax is Something to Get Pumped Up About
I don’t want to brag or anything, but I paid my carbon tax the other day. I’d just tanked up my vehicle — I don’t yet have an electric car — with 30-odd litres of regular unleaded, near my...
Media Statement: British Columbia Recommits to Clean Fuel Standard
British Columbia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines yesterday confirmed that it would leave the province’s Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Requirements Regulation unchanged in the wake of a year-long...