Climate

The energy transition presents a chance for Canada’s small, open economy to reset and recharge its global competitiveness.

Issue #01 ➔ Welcome back to the newsletter formerly known as Climate Signals, offering crunchy insights and quick takes on changing climate and energy trends. ➔ Big Apple’s Big Climate Bash ➔ What EV Sales Downturn? Hot takes ➔ Carbon tax was seen as good climate policy—now it’s a victim of climate politics. NDP’s Jagmeet […]

Policymakers in Canada’s fastest growing cities face a triple challenge over the next decade…

How indoor agriculture can serve as a local food source in northern—and urban—settings Vertical farming is a form of controlled environment agriculture (CEA), that gives growers more control over the environment they tend their crops in, which can be advantageous in challenging growing conditions. Indoor vertical farming was set to take off in a big […]

Canada’s greenhouse sector is a hotbed for growth. Greenhouses specializing in fruits and vegetables in Canada have increased

Can innovative tech turn the tide in the climate crisis?

There is a buzz around hydrogen. It comes in many iterations—geological, low-carbon, and conventional…

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.