Climate

In late May, the RBC Climate Action Institute held its inaugural youth Climate Action Event. We brought together industry executives and climate experts and 70 of Canada’s next generation of climate leaders to engage in some of our recent research and spark thoughtful debate and ideation on how to feed, fuel and house the world […]

Canada has urgent and challenging energy choices to make. We will need to rapidly scale power generation to service the needs of a growing economy, while simultaneously reducing net-carbon emissions to zero by 2050 to meet our climate targets. Given the current technological outlook, there is no single energy source that can meet those competing […]

Transportation is Canada’s second-highest emitting sector, after oil and gas, and most vehicle emissions come from passenger cars.

Ottawa is much more than Parliament Hill. I spent a couple of days there last week, ahead of the federal budget, and had the chance to meet home builders, steelmakers, software entrepreneurs, a battery innovator, electric bus operator, a few AI players

recently renamed the Canada Carbon Rebate, and the spate of pre-budget announcements over the last several weeks signals that Budget 2024 may be a climate light budget.

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Joanna Osawe is the Founder, President and CEO of Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE). WiRE is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance the role and recognition of women and other under-represented groups working in the energy sector.

Nuclear’s winter is over. It’s hard to imagine five years ago thousands of people would have trekked to Ottawa to talk nuclear. But a decarbonizing drive and a global pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050 at COP28 has given the low-carbon source plenty of momentum.

On February 16th, RBC, the Task Force on Housing and Climate, and BC Housing joined forces to host a roundtable discussion in Vancouver to address Canada’s housing crisis by enabling and scaling prefabricated or manufactured construction

The federal government’s latest Clean Electricity Regulations update shows it’s softening its position on sharply cutting emissions from natural gas-fired power plants by 2035.

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