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Working Together for a Sustainable Future
Education & Skills March 3, 2023
To avert the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has set an ambitious goal of achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. Transitioning to a net-zero economy is expected to be disruptive, but it will also create new global employment opportunities.
Online experience • 8-min read
Partner: Future Skills Centre
Building Resilience and Capacity With Remote Indigenous Communities in Canada
Indigenous & Northern Communities October 13, 2022
The Conference Board of Canada and a number of partners embarked on a multi-year project entitled Building Resilience and Capacity With Remote Indigenous Communities in Canada. Central to the project were community planning processes in four remote Indigenous communities that aimed to improve these communities’ capacities to manage threats and risks, cope with change, and seize opportunities.
Impact paper • 40-min read
Perspectives From the Circular Plastics Economy Forum
Sustainability October 7, 2022
The Conference Board of Canada’s Circular Plastics Economy Forum gathered 186 stakeholders in Canada’s plastics economy to unpack consequential issues in investment attraction, recycled content, sustainable finance, and circular business models. These findings are informed by the forum dialogue.
Online experience • 8-min read
Transitioning to Jobs in the Clean Economy
Innovation & Technology July 28, 2022
One in five Canadian employees works at a job that’s vulnerable to automation. The clean economy is a rapid-growth sector that needs workers. Is there a way to solve for both? Employees working high-risk, low-mobility (HRLM) jobs have few options to transition into lower-risk occupations without undergoing retraining.
Online experience • 8-min read
Partner: Future Skills Centre
Aligning Fragments for a Circular Plastics Economy
Sustainability July 25, 2022
Canada is committed to a life-cycle approach in eliminating plastic pollution—from production to end of life. Our national circular plastics economy, however, still needs work. True circularity means putting together more pieces of the puzzle.
Online experience • 8-min read
Infinite Cycles: Canada’s Innovation Competitiveness In Chemical Plastics Recycling
Sustainability July 25, 2022
Canada’s petrochemical plastics production industry is at a turning point. Its ability to integrate recycled plastics as part of its core business will be a key determinant of its long-term growth, longevity, and social licence. This is because the industry’s current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and plastic pollution footprint will be incompatible with a net-zero and circular economy. The industry is ripe for systemic change.
Impact paper • 38-min read
Canada’s Clean Energy Growth Economy Indicators
Sustainability June 9, 2022
This platform monitors progress toward a clean energy growth economy. It tracks the movement of indicators under three themes: economy, environment, and society. Since this platform was released in 2021, Canada’s energy transition has come into sharper focus. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) released the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan in March 2022, and the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act (CNZEA) was introduced in July 2021.
Online experience • 8-min read
The Costs of Net Zero Driving: Are Canadians Along for the Ride?
Sustainability May 5, 2022
Canada has an ambitious emissions reduction agenda. Lowering greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 40–45 per cent relative to 2005 levels by 2030 means a reduction of 295–330 Mt CO2e in the next eight years. How do we get there? While heavy-duty freight and other transport sectors are undergoing transition as well, technologies for those segments are not advancing fast enough to deliver on the government’s timeline.
Op-ed • 5-min read
Surveying Automation Trends in Canada Major Forces 2022
Innovation & Technology May 3, 2022
Major forces are the trends that shape our world. They push our societies, businesses, and governments to recalibrate their decisions and pursue the opportunities they provide. For example, major forces such as climate change force businesses to become more sustainable, and an aging workforce requires governments to find creative solutions to social safety net challenges.
Issue briefing • 22-min read
A Complicated Recovery: Travel Markets Outlook
Canadian Economics May 3, 2022
Tourism in Canada may have reached a turning point. Two years of pandemic malaise have battered the industry, but the fever might finally be lifting. Canada’s doors are opening to visitors from far and wide. Attitudes toward the pandemic are changing. And businesses are hiring in anticipation of better times ahead.
Online experience • 8-min read
