The World Next Door
Canada woke up the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in unfamiliar territory. Our closest neighbour and biggest trade partner for the past century suddenly decided that Canada was...
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Reports
Building Toward Low Cost and Carbon
Canada needs to build. As housing costs are soaring, the country is embarking on a generational housing build-out, with five million more homes and their surrounding infrastructure needed to properly...
Electrifying the lot
There are many benefits to EV ownership, but perhaps the greatest is the ability to skip the gas pump. No more eye-watering fuel prices and pesky oil changes. No more pumping gas in the freezing...
Reality Check
Thanks to the province’s abundant hydro power, British Columbians’ electricity bills are among North America’s lowest and half of what an Alberta household pays for power. Thoughtful planning...
Opening the Door
Over the last two years, the energy transition has really been going places. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the EU’s Green Deal have fuelled household-level clean energy shifts at a pace...
The Payload
There has been much chatter about electric vehicles. Are sales going up or down? Should we put tariffs on imports? How much money do they save? But these conversations have an asterisk: they’re...
The Scenic Route
Those old enough to remember the gas wars of the ’90s may remember the number 40 cents. As gas stations competed for customers, prices dipped as low as 40 cents per litre in many parts of Canada in...
Catalyzing Change: Why Canada needs a roadmap to net-zero chemistry
Canada’s chemical sector produces thousands of products that we use every day, from cosmetics to food packaging, generating annual revenues of $68.5 billion and more than 90,000 direct jobs....
Making the Grade
As federal and provincial politicians pile into the debate over carbon pricing, a more pressing question has emerged: if certain provinces reject federal climate action, what would they do instead?...
Canadian ZEMHDV Model Availability Catalogue
Clean Energy Canada has partnered with zero-emission bus and truck expert CALSTART to develop a Canadian zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (ZEMHDV) model availability catalogue. This...
An Uncertain Future
For the last 15 years, proponents have touted B.C. LNG as a cleaner substitute for coal in Asian power plants that would lower global emissions while growing B.C.’s economy. The LNG industry points...
Building Success: Implementing Effective Buy Clean Policies
Public infrastructure is responsible for eight million tonnes of embodied emissions annually, presenting a significant opportunity to reduce emissions and prepare the industrial and construction...