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Future Fields uses fruit fly-based proteins for synthetic food, medicines

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Future Fields uses fruit flies for sustainable foods

Edmonton-based Future Fields is hoping to create a world with sustainable and affordable synthetic foods and medicines using genetically engineered fruit flies. Through their EntoEngine platform, Future Fields aspires to reduce energy, land and waste use from bioreactors.

B.C. companies collaborate on remote hydrogen power

Vancouver-based Loop Energy Inc. has delivered the first three hydrogen fuel cell systems to H2 Portable Power Corp., which will be integrated into hydrogen-electric gensets to provide power to remote areas.

Canada's companies need to rethink climate strategies

GUEST SUBMISSION: Proposed regulations to provide detailed reporting on climate-related risks in Canada and the U.S. will require businesses to prepare. Marco Pimentel, chief marketing officer at Redbrick, lays out four ways for companies to adapt to potential change.

Canada a top source of renewables FDI in 2022

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into clean energy has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 40 per cent increase in greenfield renewables and alternative power projects between 2019 and 2021. Canada is one of the top sources of FDI. 

EU head urges Canada to export clean hydrogen

Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said Canada should focus on exporting clean hydrogen to Europe during her visit to Ontario, as the continent shifts its fuel sources away from Russia and toward clean energy.

The energy world is changing. How do we change with it?

With so much pressure to go green, businesses are struggling to balance their energy and climate goals with their fundamental business needs. It’s a jungle out there – but it doesn’t have to be.

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Alberta firm to provide CP Rail with hydrogen trains

Alberta manufacturer Bilton Welding and Manufacturing, is nearly finished preparing a second hydrogen-powered locomotive for CP Rail with the hope of signing a deal with the railway to produce more of the train engines in the years to come.

Ottawa’s Buy Clean strategy trails much of the world

As the federal government looks for ways to bolster Canadian competitiveness in the global clean energy race, it has only just started to use one of the more useful tools at its disposal: its own purchasing power.

Canada falls behind on reporting Scope 3 emissions

A blog post from the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI) concludes Canada risks losing competitiveness in the low carbon transition if it does not make it mandatory for Canadian companies to report their largest and most material Scope 3 emissions categories.

Citi pledges net-zero emissions cuts for more sectors

Citi announced targets for cutting emissions tied to loans it makes to coal mining, auto, steel and real estate clients by the end of this decade, in the bank's latest update to its plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Deutsche Bank restricts coal support, but not oil & gas

Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest bank, tightened its coal financing policies to align with industry standards, but has yet to change its criteria for the oil and gas industries. Activists criticized the decision to stay the course on oil and gas.

EU sets world's first rules for issuing green bonds

The European Union said it had reached a deal on the world's first set of comprehensive rules for issuing green bonds to meet the bloc's net-zero goals, although compliance will be on a voluntary basis.

Norway's plans for greener industry meet resistance

Norway's biggest onshore industrial site is planning to go fully electric by replacing natural gas. But the move raised resistance from voters worried about power bill increases, clashing with Oslo's desire to comply with the Paris Agreement.

World's largest wind farm at risk, says developer

Development of what would be the world’s largest wind farm is in doubt, with developer Orsted saying it needs more support from the British government, such as tax breaks, to proceed with the project after costs soared.

Will the U.S. approve any of the new SMRs?

Startups like Nano Nuclear and established companies like GE Hitachi, Holtec, Last Energy, NuScale, Rolls-Royce and many others are developing promising new designs of small modular reactors (SMRs). But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a long streak of saying no.

Global net-zero grids will require $21T investment

At least $21.4 trillion needs to be invested in the electricity grid by 2050 to support a net-zero trajectory, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. Significant policy intervention is required to realize this scale of investment, it says.

Billion-dollar lines finally inch ahead in the U.S.

U.S. plans to build a cleaner power grid relies on building more transmissions lines. Previously beset by bureaucracy, NIMBYism or general industry stasis, there is a sudden breaking of the dam on a state and local level.

Super-emitting sites poured methane into atmosphere

More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian reveals, mostly from oil and gas facilities. Scientists say rapidly curbing these would play a crucial role in meeting climate goals.

Groups hail historic deal to protect ocean life

Scientists and advocates for marine conservation are hailing the creation of a new treaty to protect nature on the high seas – the ocean expanse that lies outside any country’s territorial waters and comprises about 50 per cent of Earth’s surface.

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