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Rethinking power for Canada's AI boom
ESG Net-zero National Organizations are rethinking their decarbonization targets as economic pressures, policy uncertainty and structural barriers slow progress. The ones that will lead are not those with fewer challenges, but those that can adapt while maintaining strategic direction and credibility.
Rethinking power for Canada's AI boom
Energy Data Centres National Tim Robinson Senior manager and infrastructure lead, Quinn+Partners Driven by rapid demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure, Canada's data centre development pipeline now exceeds existing capacity by more than fourteen times. These projects are becoming dramatically larger, more geographically concentrated and increasingly situated outside major urban centres. These trends reflect a clear priority: accelerating speed to market.
The competition for capital in Canada’s investment supercycle
Canada is positioning itself for an investment supercycle. Amid geopolitical uncertainty, trade diversification and a renewed focus on economic sovereignty, security and resilience, governments and businesses are working to attract investment into sectors considered critical to Canada's future economy, including energy, mining and metals, transportation infrastructure, artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing.
'Now is the time': Natural hydrogen is having its moment in Canada
Vema drilling pilot wells in Quebec for geologic hydrogen. (Courtesy Vema Hydrogen) Companies both domestic and foreign are scouring the remote wilderness of Canada for the chance to pull a natural resource from the ground that has the potential to reshape major industries: hydrogen. Naturally occurring hydrogen is formed underground in places like the ancient rocks of the Canadian Shield, where a chemical process splits water molecules and releases hydrogen gas.
The great target reckoning
Telus intends to plant one million trees in 2026 in partnership with Canadian Indigenous communities as part of its Biodiversity Position & Action Plan. (Courtesy Telus/Harold Horsefall) Vancouver-based communication technology company Telus (T-T) is making protection and restoration of ecosystems, Indigenous cooperation and the use of innovative technology central to its inaugural Biodiversity Position & Action Plan.
It may be time for a climate action rebrand: TOCW panel
From left: panel moderator Jocelyn Butler, the CEO of Orchestra Marketing; Sarah Roberton, senior vice-president of corporate and public affairs at Environics Research; Matt DiPaola, senior vice-president of marketing and innovation at BIMM; Jason Agar, founder of Pomelo Studio Inc.
A new era of sustainable finance
Governments are increasingly using policy, taxonomies and public investment to attract private capital towards national economic priorities Finance Sustainable finance National Complex market dynamics are transforming sustainable finance — creating new challenges and opportunities that investors, lenders and companies need to navigate to deploy capital effectively.
The great target reckoning
The past decade has marked unprecedented momentum toward the net-zero transition as governments, investors and companies converged toward setting ambitious science-aligned decarbonization commitments. However, the past two years have introduced economic uncertainty, geopolitical instability, fragmented policy signals, supply chain constraints and evolving standards, complicating the practical realities of decarbonization.
Deep Sky inks carbon removal deal with TD
From its Alpha site, Deep Sky is to absorb and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as per contract with TD. (Courtesy Deep Sky) TD Bank Group (TD-T) will purchase over 18,000 carbon removal credits from Deep Sky in a 10-year offtake agreement to offset a portion of its climate-warming emissions.
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