Strategic analysis and actionable insights on climate progress across several key sectors, including oil and gas, agriculture, buildings, transportation and heavy industry.
Major Reports
Giving Farmers Credit: Integrating agriculture in Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system
Five factors stunting growth and five ideas to grow farmer market access
Atomic Advantage: Canada’s generational opportunity in a new Nuclear Age
Canada faces three credible, and not mutually exclusive, nuclear futures.
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Articles
Climate Crunch: What’s on the Canada Investment Summit agenda for clean-tech investors
Plus, a gut-wrenching glacier meltdown
Climate Crunch: AI in our backyards
Plus, Quebec and Newfoundland plan North America’s largest clean energy investment
Climate Crunch: Canada’s great energy—and carbon capture—rush
The new Calgary Stampede for Canadian resources
Climate Crunch: Canada’s hunt for transformers and talent
Plus, Canada is going global with its nuclear ambitions
Climate Crunch: Saving whales, bees and salamanders while building Canada
Plus, FIFA World’s Cup’s heavy carbon footprint.
Climate Crunch: The tech race to tame Canada’s wildfires
Plus, Arrell Institute’s Evan Fraser on what keeps him up at night
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