Expert Commentary

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 […]

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.

Climate Signals: Your Weekly Climate Briefing

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.

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.

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 […]

If there were any doubts how far climate has fallen down Santa’s wish list for the Trudeau government, read Chrystia Freeland’s Fall Economic Statement.