Transforming Canada's Energy EconomyFacing the Climate Challenge: Tech and Policy Solutions Fact Sheet

Publication - Nov. 25, 2009 - By Clare Demerse, Matthew Bramley
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Canada needs a massive investment in clean energy technology to cut our greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. The solutions are at hand: more efficient vehicles and buildings, wind and solar power, and even carbon capture and storage have already been demonstrated on an industrial scale.

But Canada has not yet succeeded in dramatically accelerating investment in such technologies. Download our "Transforming Canada's Energy Economy" fact sheet to find out more about the policies and strategies it would take to move technologies like these out of the fringes and into the mainstream.

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