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            Climate Action 2025

            An annual progress report on Canada’s net-zero journey

            Overview

            A year for rewiring

            Idea Of The Year

            Canada’s Climate Transformer: Why electricity holds the key

            Climate Action Barometer

            Scoring Canada’s progress on policy, capital, action and emissions

            Sectors

            Oil & Gas

            Transportation

            Buildings

            Electricity

            Heavy Industry

            Agriculture

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            About

            Read our methodology and about the team behind Climate Action 2025

            RBC Climate Action Institute

            The Institute aims to inspire Canada’s net-zero journey

            Last year’s 2024 report

            An annual progress report on Canada’s net-zero journey

            Why We Wrote This Report

            RBC launched the Climate Action Institute in 2023 to support Canada’s journey to net-zero, with a commitment to inform, engage and act on all aspects of the climate challenge.

            In our first two years, our team published more than 40 research papers, on topics ranging from district energy to artificial intelligence’s impact on Canada’s electricity grid. We’ve engaged with governments, industries and community groups, to share insights and ideas. We’ve heard and learned from Canadians at the forefront of climate change. And we’ve helped launch two groups—the Canadian Alliance for net-zero Agrifood and the Climate Smart Buildings Alliance—to help develop private sector strategies to reduce emissions.

            Like last year, this year’s Climate Action 2025 report gives Canadians an annual look at climate action, to show the country where we’re at, what’s working and what’s not.

            CA25 was produced by the Institute’s research team, led by Myha Truong-Regan, who compiled databases on leading sectors, conducted surveys of Canadian business leaders, analyzed consumer behaviour and interviewed scores of climate experts.

            Building on last year’s sectoral report cards, the team developed a unique National Climate Index, and a Climate Index for agriculture, buildings, electricity, heavy industry, oil and gas, and transportation. Each index has four levers—government policy, climate action, capital flows, and emissions—that together offer a composite snapshot of how Canadian industries pursued their climate commitments.

            We shine a special light on the most central issue Canada must address over the next half decade: building a low-carbon electricity grid. The sector sits at the heart of all industries and would make a meaningful difference in the economic and environmental viability of conventional and new industries that will drive Canadian economic prosperity forward.

            To profile action, we showcase six innovative Canadian companies as our case studies for each of the sectors to highlight the on-the-ground challenges Canadian businesses face as they reduce their carbon footprint and help their customers along the way. These entrepreneurs, businesses and change agents are involved in industries as diverse as animal genetics to carbon capture, with each making a telling contribution to Canada’s climate goals.

            Lastly, the report concludes with a list of ideas aimed at jumpstarting more progress in the year ahead.

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