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Cleantech list highlights 13 Canadian companies

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Thirteen Canadian companies have been recognized in the San Francisco-based Cleantech Group’s annual Global Cleantech 100 list of private companies making an impact in sustainability.

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A climate action plan is a set of strategies that guide efforts for climate-change mitigation. Many plans have recently been developed by cities, states, nations, companies and organizations. The Zero Energy Project lists 414 cities and counties as having such plans.

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In his annual letter to CEOs, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says that, while decarbonizing the global economy is ‘the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime,’ he also asserts that divesting from entire sectors will not get the world to net-zero.

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Don Lindsay, CEO of Vancouver-based Teck Resources, a diversified mining company that produces oil, coal, copper and zinc, called for a “clean industrial strategy” moving the debate about climate change beyond an ideological squabble over whether the threat is real.

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EarthRenew, a producer of regenerative fertilizer, has achieved positive results in product trials involving the effect of the Rebuilder 0-17-0-12 on the soil microbiome of potato fields.

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Among the flurry of futuristic investments that Canadian French fry empire McCain Foods has been making, probably the most interesting has been an indoor lettuce farm in a windowless warehouse in Guelph, Ont. that competes with California produce.

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Agriculture technology, or agtech for short, can be a leading catalyst in Canada’s platform to combat climate change. As we look to seize this opportunity, Canada stands to become a global leader in a growing multibillion-dollar economic sector.

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Some might say that Ontario farmers are ready to tackle climate change. It’s a misleading statement, because we already are. Climate change is a real and looming threat, and left unchecked it could destabilize our entire food system.

Decarbonizing Canada’s Large Buildings

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A building in Victoria, called the Telus Ocean building, has been given the green light to move forward on development, but an avian biologist is worried the design, which features a lot of reflective glass, could be harmful to birds.

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About 40 miles south of San Francisco, three futuristic structures rise from the earth. With sloping roofs clad in thousands of overlapping tiles, the buildings, part of Google’s new Bay View campus, is due to welcome employees this year.

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IKEA is on track to become climate positive by 2030 as its annual carbon emissions fell 6 per cent from pre-pandemic levels despite record sales achieved through management of its value chain including raw material production, customers’ use and disposal of products.

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Berlin’s regional parliament is considering creating a car-free zone in the German capital in response to a concerted push from a local advocacy group. The car ban would apply to a space that circles the city center larger than Manhattan.

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Global efforts to halt species loss by protecting 30 per cent of Earth’s marine and land area by 2030 – a target for an international negotiation set for this year – are unlikely to succeed without “transformative” parallel changes in humanity’s uses of resources.

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Paying living wages throughout supply chains can mean changing business models, which can seem insurmountable. But a series of case studies from IDH shows how companies and coalitions are making real progress on their commitments.

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How did Toronto-based MCAN Mortgage Corporation, where the top job of president and CEO at MCAN, the roles of vice-president and chief financial officer are held by women, achieve a level of gender diversity so many companies say they want?

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Supply chain disruptions highlight an important need for companies to track products through every step, and traceability systems that track the history, location and application of a product are tools investors should demand their businesses have, according to Planet Tracker.

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RE100, the coalition of companies committed to transitioning to 100 per cent renewable power, has called on governments to remove barriers to corporate clean power procurement, warning that regulatory barriers are hampering the business world’s transition to net zero emissions.

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The biggest North Sea fossil-fuel producers are set to invest more in wind power in the coming years than in its oil and gas. Royal Dutch Shell, TotalEnergies and BP have won rights to develop offshore wind farms this week.

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Canada’s Imperial Oil aims to reduce GHG emissions intensity from its oil sands operations by 30 per cent by the end of 2030, compared with 2016 levels by reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions, efficiency improvements at its facilities and carbon capture and storage.

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A powerful cloud of methane was spotted in Oklahoma near multiple pipelines, oil and gas wells. Methane is the primary component of natural gas and generates 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide during its first two decades in the atmosphere.

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