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Canada Announces Over $80 Billion Clean Tech & Energy Investments to Compete with U.S. Inflation Reduction Act

ESG Today

Canada unveiled its response to the emerging global race to scale up green energy and clean tech manufacturing capacity, with proposals for over $60 billion in tax credits and an additional $20 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments in its 2023 budget, presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland.

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Canada to Phase Out Public Fossil Fuel Financing

ESG Today

The new “Fossil Fuel Subsidies Government of Canada Self‑Review Assessment Framework,” – the first of its kind globally, according to the government – details a set of criteria to determine that subsidies to the energy sector must meet in order to not be considered inefficient.

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Understanding the Crucial Role of Climate Scenario Analysis in Business Strategy

3BL Media

The regulatory changes and shifting market demands, as well as the opportunities to innovate and improve operational efficiencies that come with a global economy shifting towards low-carbon technologies. It anticipates governments fulfilling commitments like those in the Paris Agreement and national climate action plans.

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We’ve taken stock of corporate climate action and business knows what it needs to deliver the clean energy transition

We Mean Business Coalition

One set of actors that are most certainly moving fast are those companies at the forefront of clean technology transitions. In contrast to the global stocktake, which focusses on country-level emissions, the Corporate Climate Stocktake examines the pace of clean solutions adoption within economic sectors.

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Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey

GreenBiz

Yes, but sustainable finance is far bigger than just the companies seeking capital to expand their operations or invest in clean technologies and other things. Sustainable finance is a way of deploying investment capital to create sustainable outcomes at a societal and economy-wide level.". Well, almost. trillion annually.

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COP26: Statement from the We Mean Business Coalition

We Mean Business Coalition

C within reach, and to transition to a net-zero global economy by 2050 at the latest. Support meaningful carbon pricing policies to reflect the full costs of climate change and drive clean technology innovation and investment in emission reductions, as part of a broader mix of policy instruments.

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A Hidden Risk — And Opportunity — in Clean Energy: Why the Energy Transition Cannot Happen Unless it Addresses Women’s Unpaid Care Work

James Militzer

Women are underrepresented in the clean energy sector According to the International Energy Agency , more than 770 million people — most of them in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries — have limited or no access to electricity, and 2.5 billion people lack access to clean technologies and fuels for cooking, lighting and heating.