Initiatives
Besides our direct work, the Pembina Institute also manages a number of other initiatives, either alone or in partnership with other organizations. Explore these initiatives here:
Business Renewables Centre Canada
The Business Renewables Centre Canada is a modern marketplace where corporations and institutions can learn how to buy renewable energy directly from developers. BRC-Canada is a members-only platform that brings energy buyers, sellers and intermediaries together to generate awareness in the industry, build a strong community and provide effective tools and resources.
Urban Delivery Solutions Initiative
The UDSI is a national network of businesses and organizations working to modernize urban freight operations in Canadian cities. Together, we can lead the way in influencing urban freight policies that make good business sense while advancing a clean and prosperous economy in Canada.
Urban Freight Data Hub
The Pembina Institute’s Urban Freight Data Hub is a publicly accessible digital hub, which amalgamates existing urban freight data from Canada’s largest cities and makes it easily available to city planners, policy practitioners, and researchers.
Transforming Transportation in Edmonton: Women in Fleets
The Pembina Institute, with support from Alberta Ecotrust and the City of Edmonton, is looking for participants for an exciting project that will shape Edmonton’s future. We are bringing together a group of women and gender-diverse leaders to share experiences and propose polices and investments that will support low-emission transportation — and showcase that women are leaders in the transportation sector.
Canada Energy Policy Simulator
Designing energy policy correctly is tough work. Policies must reduce pollution at a reasonable cost while allowing cleaner technology to thrive.
With the Energy Policy Simulator, you can test your hand at energy policy design. Discover the effects of various energy policies, build your favorite policy package, and share it with friends.
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- ALSO: Test your solutions in Alberta with Alberta's Energy Policy Simulator
Alberta Narratives Project
The Alberta Narratives Project is a community-based initiative that aims to find ways of talking about our energy-climate future that build bridges to better community conversation. We spoke with farmers, oilsands workers, energy leaders, business people, youth, environmental activists, New Canadians and many more to uncover language and narratives that reflect the values and identities of Albertans.
Two reports have now been produced, helping to frame more productive ways for everyone to be involved in conversations about climate and energy in Alberta.
Women in Energy Transformation
Many of Canada’s strongest and most inspiring climate leaders are women – but paradoxically, our energy sector remains one of the least gender equitable in the country. The Women in Energy Transformation initiative, supported by the Pembina Institute and GLOBE Series, takes a two-pronged approach to elevate women’s voices and work towards a more equitable clean energy future in Canada:
- An online platform profiling women climate leaders and providing resources to women working in, or interested in working in, the energy sector
- A series of national dialogues to discuss and develop solutions to the barriers women face
Strategy for Zero-emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Emissions produced by medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) need to be a priority for Canada’s climate ambitions as they are the highest of any transportation sub-sector. Throughout 2022 and early 2023, with the support of TAF and our Urban Delivery Solutions Initiative partners including FedEx, the Pembina Institute is developing a “Zero-emission MHDV strategy” which will identify the suite of policies, regulations, incentives, and investments needed to transition the MHDV sector off carbon pollution.
Fair and Inclusive Rates campaign
A growing number of remote, Indigenous communities are leading the development of renewable energy projects as they transition away from diesel dependency. The FAIR campaign is an initiative to reform policy and regulatory barriers and to spur investment so that Indigenous-led renewable energy projects are appropriately financed by utilities and private investors.
Reframed Initiative
The Reframed Initiative is working with designers, builders, owners, financiers, and policy-makers to scale up deep retrofits. Together, we can address the housing crunch and climate emergency.
Alberta Energy Policy Simulator
Alberta’s Energy Policy Simulator allows you to visualize the interactive and cumulative effect of current, proposed, or potential policies - from renewable energy to pollution pricing and mass transit to efficient buildings - on the province’s carbon pollution and energy trajectory.
Alberta’s Energy Policy Simulator builds on the success of Canada’s Energy Policy Simulator, launched in 2018.
- Explore the Alberta Energy Policy Simulator
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- ALSO: Try your solutions for the whole country with Canada's Energy Policy Simulator
Landowners' Guide to Oil and Gas Development
Alberta’s energy development landscape is a maze of regulations and complex relationships. The Landowners’ Guide to Oil and Gas Development provides advice on negotiating the best relationship possible between industry representatives who live and breathe this subject matter and property owners or communities that may be facing it for the first time. The 2019 Landowners' Primer: What you need to know about unreclaimed oil and gas wells is an additional resource to help those who are most impacted by inactive and orphaned oil and gas infrastructure on their land. Our Liabilities resources for landowners page provides information for Albertan landowners, and summarizes recent updates and developments in clean-up efforts and regulations.
