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Clear Blue delivers off-grid power to wireless tech
Clear Blue delivers off-grid power to wireless tech, IoT devices
Toronto’s Clear Blue Technologies offers off-grid technology which allows solar energy to not only power street lights, but IoT devices like security cameras, traffic lights and more. Founder Miriam Tuerk believes it can revolutionize how power is delivered.
Desjardins anchors $1B renewable energy platform
• IPE Real Assets • Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Power Sustainable Capital has teamed up with institutional investors, including Desjardins Group as the anchor investor, to launch the $1 billion Cdn Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Partnership, which is also backed by Canadian insurer Great-West Lifeco and National Bank of Canada.
Quebec green hydrogen plant moves ahead
• CNBC • Sustainable Biz Canada • Canada Newswire
A major green hydrogen project in Canada took another step forward with an engineering contract awarded to a subsidiary of German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp. The company is to build a 88-megawatt water electrolysis plant for Hydro-Québec.
Rogers Centre retractable roof reused and recycled
When Toronto’s Rogers Centre stadium needed a new roof, the owner turned to Sika Sarnafil, manufacturer of the original vinyl roof membrane. Choosing a Sarnafil roof provided the benefit of its recycling initiatives and participation in a meaningful sustainability program.
Carbon Engineering N.A. Cleantech company of 2021
Squamish, B.C.-based Carbon Engineering has received the 2021 North American Company of the Year Award given to the highest-ranked company on the annual Global Cleantech 100 list from San Francisco-based Cleantech Group for its proprietary carbon dioxide capture technology.
Canadian corporations push back on climate reporting
Some of Canada’s biggest corporations are opposing an Ontario proposal to require publicly traded companies to disclose their climate change-related financial risks in a manner that aligns with global reporting standards including a diversity target for their boards of directors.
Decarbonizing Keystone unlikely to sway ESG investors
Sustainable investing experts say TC Energy Corp.’s plan to decarbonize the Keystone XL pipeline is unlikely to save its fortunes as a growing movement to divest from fossil fuels gains political clout.
Biden sets new pace in climate race
• Corporate Knights • The Hill • GreenBiz
While running for the U.S. presidency, Joe Biden championed climate action and promoted a US$2-trillion “Build Back Better” action plan. As president-elect, Biden showed he means business naming a tough, experienced team to bring a climate lens to transition challenges.
Yellen vows team that’s focused on climate
• Politico
U.S. treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen has pledged to create a team to focus on climate change in a move that’s likely to put the powerful agency at the forefront of Biden administration’s efforts to combat what she called an “existential threat.”
Caisse exits tobacco, pushes ‘sustainable’ investments
Tobacco is out at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, a move that allows it to join the Tobacco Free Portfolios coalition whose mission is to inform investors of tobacco’s impact and sign the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge.
BGO takes lead on viral response in U.S. CRE
BentallGreenOak (BGO) has achieved Fitwel’s Viral Response Approval for 17 office buildings in nine different U.S. cities, making it the largest commercial real estate portfolio in the country to have achieved this distinction, retaining Underwriters Laboratories to provide third-party verification.
REIT to build largest U.S. rooftop community solar project
STAG Industrial has launched three new Maryland rooftop community solar projects with a aggregate capacity of 11.6 megawatts. The projects will provide renewable energy and one of the projects is on track to become the largest U.S. rooftop community solar project.
SHARC to install Denver wastewater recovery system
• Globe Newswire • Sustainable Biz Canada
Colorado’s National Western Center, an innovation hub being built in the heart of Denver, will use B.C.-based SHARC Energy’s technology to recover the heat in wastewater and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use, energy costs, and GHG emissions.
Area One Farms sustainably investing alongside farmers
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Toronto-based Area One Farms has committed $450 million to farm investments and it has 24 farm partners in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. It is considered an impact investment that alongside financial targets also produces measurable environmental and social results.
Green policies could spark a B.C. mining boom
‘Greening the grid ‘will require a small planet’s worth of copper, iron, cobalt, and aluminum, attendees learned at the Association of Mineral Exploration conference. A global economic recovery will mark the beginning of a mining supercycle, triggered by environmental policies.
WWF finds oil spill compensation reform needed for F.N.
Indigenous communities face many barriers to receiving compensation for oil spills from ships in their territories — in fact, only one relatively small claim has ever been paid directly to an Indigenous group — according to a new WWF-Canada-commissioned report.
Indigenous-led solar energy project wins prize funding
The federal government has announced that Grant Sullivan, one of 14 Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative (IODI) Energy Champions and current President of Nihtat Energy Ltd., will receive $800,000 in prize funding to begin implementing community clean energy projects in the Beaufort Delta region.
Canada on International Renewable Energy Agency Council
Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Natural Resources, announced Canada has been voted in as an official Member of Council for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Canada will serve a two-year term on the council, made up of 163 member countries.
Climate neutral data centre pact sets ambitions goal
A year after the adoption of the European Green Deal, cloud infrastructure providers have created the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. Twenty-five companies and 17 associations have agreed to make data centres in Europe climate neutral by 2030.
Environmental problems top global forum risk report
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Damage to the environment from climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss is the main danger in the coming years, the World Economic Forum says, though the pandemic has highlighted the long-term risk of infectious diseases.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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