What Canada can learn from the EU’s climate policy
Outside our borders, Canada is perhaps best known for its spectacular wilderness: its lakes, rivers, mountains and coastlines draw visitors from all over the globe. Canada’s new prime minister,...
Tag: clean energy
Climate leadership would attract clean energy investment to B.C.
During the next few months, shipment after shipment of enormous steel tubes and fibreglass blades will snake from the port of Stewart, B.C., towards a construction site 33 kilometres north of Tumbler...
Global clean energy trends a bright spot in economic gloom
Bad news dominated energy headlines in 2015: Plunging oil prices. Oil and gas companies scaling back investment. Business and government books sliding from black deep into the red. Layoffs. Albertans...
Craving more details on the 2016 federal budget? Dig in.
We sent out a statement about the federal budget the day it came out (our quick verdict: thumbs up). And we put together an op-ed that offers some context. But for the true clean energy connoisseur,...
Morneau budget is down payment on clean energy "dream home"
Budgets are a moment where governments show their real priorities: if something matters to them, they spend money to support it. And from mandate letters to Paris climate talks and meetings with...
2016 Federal Budget Features Smart Spending on Clean Energy
OTTAWA—Clare Demerse, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of the 2016 Federal Budget: “Today’s federal budget makes...
Why closer collaboration between Canada and the U.S. on clean energy would be a good thing
Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama are expected to announce new climate change and clean energy commitments when they meet in Washington D.C. over the next couple of days. According to...
Global clean Energy Investment Soared in 2015 Despite Fossil Fuel Crash: Analysis
Backgrounder | Communiqué de presse | Document d’information VANCOUVER—New clean energy deals were widely expected to stall last year as the price of oil and other fossil fuels declined...
MOU Kicks Off ‘Clean XL’ Conversation for North America
New efforts by Canada, U.S. and Mexico to collaborate could accelerate clean energy transition VANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in...
Keystone? Nah. Energy Ministers are ready for Clean XL
This week, North America’s energy ministers are getting together in Winnipeg for something that would have been unimaginable a year ago: a meeting that won’t include the Keystone XL pipeline...
National Cooperation on Climate can Spark New Innovation and Growth
VANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement on the conclusion of a meeting of federal and provincial environment ministers in Ottawa today:...
Paris Agreement Signals Global Shift Off Fossil Fuels and to Clean Economy
As the two-week marathon of climate talks wraps up today in Paris, the release of the final agreement text is already generating the predictable round of mixed reactions. But regardless of what has...