🇨🇦 OUT TODAY: New research shows how Canada can outcompete the U.S. for low-carbon investment.
Compares incentives in Canada and the U.S. for investment in 14 low-carbon sectors.
👉 Read it here: cleanprosperity.ca/how-canada-c...
In this week's Clean Prosperity newsletter:
💰 - businesses are ready to deploy low-carbon capital, but need policy certainty;
🔌 - National Energy Corridor is an important first step in breaking down electricity barriers;
➕ - and more!
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Our 2025 Impact Report is out!
This year we:
- contributed to a fed-prov energy and climate grand bargain;
- advanced dialogue on nuclear power;
- influenced electricity distribution reform; and
- expanded our reach in Western Canada.
🔗 Read more: www.cleanprosperity.ca/ImpactReport
Did you know?
83% of nuclear experts in our survey say skilled labour shortages are the biggest risk to nuclear build-out in Canada — especially welders, pipefitters & electricians.
Without action, costs could rise and projects could stall.
🔗 www.CleanProsperity.ca/ChainReactions
🇨🇦Canada has an opportunity to scale nuclear power for a low-carbon, electrified economy.
👷♀️But supply-chain and workforce constraints could drive cost overruns and delays, warns a new Clean Prosperity report, out today.
Read more: cleanprosperity.ca/ChainReactions
⚡Strengthening interprovincial electricity transmission could improve grid reliability, lower costs, and support decarbonization, says our new report.
Now we need a plan that prioritizes collaboration, quantifies the benefits, and mobilizes funding.
More 👇
www.cleanprosperity.ca/BillionsOnTheLine
⚡ Job alert! ⚡
Clean Prosperity is hiring a Director of Development.
In this role, you will be a key member of our team and will be integral to our efforts as we work to shape climate and energy policy in Canada.
Learn more and apply 👇
cleanprosperity.ca/jobs/job-ope...
❄️ Happy Holidays from your friends at Clean Prosperity!
Our holiday card (linked below) includes a list of our favourite climate reads this year. We hope you’ll find a quiet moment this holiday season to sit back and enjoy one or two.
📚 🔗 mailchi.mp/cleanprosper...
We are thrilled to welcome Mark MacLean to our board.
"Real progress happens only when policy, business, and innovation pull in the same direction," MacLean says.
"Clean Prosperity...brings those elements together with clarity and credibility."
🔗 More: cleanprosperity.ca/board-of-dir...
We are delighted to welcome Fate Saghir to our board.
"Effective, credible policy unlocks investment," Saghir says.
"I’m motivated to support Clean Prosperity’s work in advancing solutions that are both environmentally and economically sound."
More 👉 cleanprosperity.ca/board-of-dir...
We are so happy to welcome Mike Pedersen to our board of directors.
"Clean Prosperity’s focus on pragmatic and private sector-led climate solutions is having a tremendous positive impact, and I am proud to serve on the board," Pedersen says.
🔗 Read more: cleanprosperity.ca/board-of-dir...
We are delighted to welcome Janet MacEachern to our board of directors.
“Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy must go hand-in-hand with strong economic growth and social wellbeing," MacEachern says.
Read more 👉 cleanprosperity.ca/board-of-dir...
If we can strengthen our industrial carbon pricing system and get the details right, "that will lead to a step change in our decarbonization trajectory," Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein told Vassy Kapelos.
👂 Listen to the full segment (starting at 1:03:35):
open.spotify.com/episode/4hbe...
Up to $90-billion in projects could be unlocked through the MOU, cutting 70 Mt of Alberta’s annual emissions.
“We really do think this could be a turning point for decarbonization,” says Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein in @theglobeandmail.com.
👇
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The MOU signed last week by the federal and Alberta governments could unlock more than $90 billion in low-carbon capital investment and slash annual emissions by over 70 megatonnes in Alberta.
Read the findings and recommendations from our new report 👇
www.cleanprosperity.ca/TopTIER
"Canada’s progress on emissions reduction was stuck in a ditch, and the Ottawa-Alberta 'grand bargain' just put it back on the road," says Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein in @theglobeandmail.com today.
Read the full op-ed👇 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
We are hiring a Research Associate, Buildings Policy.
Particular focus will be on:
(1) leading work on decarbonizing large buildings; and
(2) cost-effective routes for low-carbon municipal growth.
🔗 Learn more and apply:
cleanprosperity.ca/jobs/job-ope...
“Today’s agreement holds promise of being the first step in a historic policy reset," says Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein.
"By prioritizing strong carbon markets, Ottawa and AB are starting down the right path to grow Canada’s low-carbon economy & reduce emissions."
👇
tinyurl.com/367dpxh6
A grand bargain between Ottawa and Alberta "could actually be a watershed moment for decarbonization,” says Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein in CBC News today.
A strong industrial carbon pricing system will be key to driving down emissions.
👇
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
With hybrid heating, "Ontario households can save money on their heating bills while also reducing their greenhouse gas emissions," writes Clean Prosperity's Benjamin Dachis for the C.D. Howe Institute.
It's a practical, cost-effective way to decarbonize home heating.
👇 cdhowe.org/publication/...
This week our newsletter covered:
🌿 Canada's new climate competitiveness strategy in the federal budget;
⚡ the next tranche of nation-building projects and our hopes for a grand bargain;
➕ and more!
Don't miss out -- sign up here 👇 cleanprosperity.ca/newsletter/
“I’m encouraged to see the federal government commit to industrial carbon pricing as the central focus of Canada’s climate competitiveness strategy in today’s budget," said Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein.
Our full statement on the 2025 budget👇
cleanprosperity.ca/budget-2025-...
Read more on how Canada can strengthen carbon markets to attract billions in investment: cleanprosperity.ca/to-strike-a-...
“We have an opportunity today to actually capture some of the investment and low carbon technologies and new industries that thought they may have had a home in the United States and no longer do so,” Clean Prosperity CEO Michael Bernstein told @thestar.com.
More 👇
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
📣 Catch @Brendan_Frank speaking about Canada's carbon pricing architecture at the @cacarboninfo Clean Fuels & Carbon Markets Summit next week in Calgary.
More 👇 canadasummit.ccarbon.info/agenda
Ontario faces an electricity distribution financing gap of $2.2 billion to $8 billion.
To solve this, we must reform the tax system to encourage increased private investment.
🔗Read our report: cleanprosperity.ca/powering-up/
Electricity demand will grow significantly in Ontario from now to 2050. ⚡️
Solving electricity distribution financing will be key.
"We must have access to abundant and affordable energy to drive growth," says ON Min Stephen Lecce in
@nationalpost.com.web.brid.gy 👇
nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
Clean Prosperity welcomes Adam Nelson, Manager, Alberta Government Relations!
Adam brings deep public sector and government relations know-how. He is passionate about politics and policy, including energy, environment, and fiscal responsibility.
More 👉 cleanprosperity.ca/who-we-are/
Carbon removal is an opportunity for Canada – and one that Canadians are getting behind:
📈 67% believe carbon removal can grow the economy; and
🇨🇦 81% say it’s important to Canada’s future.
Survey results from @carbonremoval.bsky.social & @co2bc.bsky.social 👇 carbonremoval.ca/press-releas...
