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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

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.