Strategic analysis and actionable insights on climate progress across several key sectors, including oil and gas, agriculture, buildings, transportation and heavy industry.
Major Reports
Carbon Pricing & Competitiveness: Steering Canada’s climate policies amid trade shocks
What Canada needs to consider as its looks to maintain its global competitiveness amid fragmented trade and climate policies.
A Housing Trifecta: How governments can tap private capital to improve supply, sustainability and affordability
The urgency to leverage and enlarge the pool of capital available for new housing construction is becoming greater.
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Articles
Earth Day 2026: Nature’s Riches, Resources & Revival in Canada
Plus, how Canada’s portfolio management compare globally.
Climate Crunch: Can wind power up in Newfoundland and Labrador?
Plus, Ottawa and Alberta’s big methane deal
Texas-sized challenges: 9 takeaways from CERAWeek
John Stackhouse was in Houston at the so-called Super Bowl of Energy.
Critical Minerals Processing: The West’s refining challenge and the technologies closing the gap
What you need to know about the West’s struggle to break China’s dominant role in rare-earth elements refining
Climate Crunch: The Ottawa-Alberta trifecta: methane, carbon pricing and Pathways
Plus, Canada charts new scenarios for a new energy era
Climate Crunch: The coming war for climate
Plus, inside Canada’s strategy for the “Davos of Energy”
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