Climate

In early February, the RBC Climate Action Institute launched our inaugural assessment of Canadian climate progress, and convened more than 100 business leaders

Canada faces a triple economic challenge, and with it, a triple economic opportunity that can lay the foundation for growth through the 2030s.

Cleantech is in correction mode. Last year’s CleanTech Forum, in Palm Springs, was brimming with measured optimism, although there were whispers of some impending corporate failures wafting down the halls.

Population and economic growth spell a demand for much more energy. Climate pressures spell an imperative for a different mix. And new technologies mean new opportunities for both.

The World Economic Forum is always a contradiction of hope and anxiety. This year’s version felt like peak paradox.The week-long gathering of government, business and civil society leaders, in Davos, Switzerland, was designed to focus on a global crisis of trust.

Davos – This will be my 9th time to Davos, and I don’t remember so much international anxiety.

It’s 2024 and we’re back to help navigate the twists and turns of an increasingly disruptive world.

Amid the backdrop of an increasingly polarized geopolitical landscape, growing socio-economic challenges and intensifying climate conditions, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) hosted its largest ever summit in Dubai with 100,000 attendees. Each COP provides a global stage for nations to collectively address urgent climate issues and foster international cooperation — with the […]

The business COP. The oil COP. The pragmatic COP. The sellout COP. There were almost as many labels thrown at COP28 as there were people (100,000) at the climate conference in Dubai.

You might expect that in Dubai, with its splashy display of wealth and ambition at every turn. But at the big UN climate conference that’s underway here

Good Cap, Bad Cap? It’s here at last—but not there yet. The federal government unveiled its much hyped (and to some, much feared) oil and gas emissions cap “framework” at the midpoint of COP28, laying down its most ambitious climate policy to date. No other oil and gas exporting nation has placed a cap on […]

How can we mobilize carbon markets to ensure they’re trustworthy and transparent?