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.

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. 

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.

Vancouver-based communication technology company Telus is making protection and restoration of ecosystems, Indigenous cooperation and the use of innovative technology central to its inaugural Biodiversity Position & Action Plan.

The expansion of Volkswagen’s parts distribution centre in Ajax, Ont. includes features geared toward electric vehicles (EVs), such as a new battery storage space and training rooms for its technicians to better handle electric cars.

Novisto, a Montreal-based developer of a corporate sustainability platform, has partnered with and received an investment from La Caisse. Novisto’s CEO Charles Assaf calls it the “next chapter” for the company.

MAX Power Mining Corp. (MAXX-CN) is partnering with the City of Moose Jaw to power a nearby industrial hub with a low-carbon energy source: hydrogen drawn from the ground not too far from the city.

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker ACT, opening another avenue for the London, Ont.-based company to raise funds and broaden its reach.

Projects that benefit the environment and society remain a keystone of Stantec’s work, its senior vice-president of corporate sustainability Carrie Sabin said, with some of its strongest growth potential often oriented around such priorities.

BrainBox AI has unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) innovation lab and showroom in Montreal that showcases its claim that buildings using its technology can see energy savings of up to 30 per cent.

Environmental remediation products developed by Kelowna, B.C.-based AgritechBC Solutions Inc. are getting global reach through a partial acquisition by CleanGo Innovations Inc., which is also expected to elevate its production.

A program armed with over $5 billion to support wind energy projects developed in partnership with Indigenous communities has been launched by Hydro-Québec, with funding from the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and National Bank of Canada.

The acquisition of geothermal utility Subterra Renewables is a “natural fit” for Forum Asset Management, a senior figure from the investment and development firm said.

Developer Rosefellow has its first LEED Gold building in the works, a $200-million project off Highway 13 in Laval, Que. which emphasizes energy efficiency and low-carbon design.

Canada’s Clean50, an awards program for the country’s sustainability and climate leaders, is in dire financial straits, its organizer said, putting future events and winners lists in question unless the gap can be covered.

Moment Energy plans to launch the world's largest battery repurposing facility in Vancouver in just six weeks, with the aim of starting operations in June.

The ongoing transition to an electric fleet has led to happier employees and clients for Montreal-based Strathmore Commercial Landscape Management. But it has also demanded a rethinking of its operations, including how to contend with the challenges of winter weather.

Québec Innovative Materials Corp. (QIMC-CN) and Lambton College are jointly developing a hydrogen-powered modular energy system to power data centres, with the aim of producing low-carbon electricity for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

As Indigenous involvement in the Canadian renewables sector is becoming increasingly commonplace, panellists at Clean Power Finance Canada laid out how to gain the approval of First Nations communities for clean energy projects.

GUEST SUBMISSION: Canada is at a pivotal moment in its energy transition. The federal government is preparing to release an updated National Electricity Strategy, and provinces are simultaneously revisiting their own approaches to grid planning, electrification and data centre development.

The MaRS Discovery District is helping five Canadian cleantech startups reach their first commercial-scale projects with its First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Lab, a program aimed at overcoming some of the biggest hurdles in the sector.

Canada has major strengths bolstering a multibillion-dollar opportunity to build the renewable energy it needs to satisfy future electricity demand, speakers at Clean Power Finance Canada said.

Verretex, a Swiss startup behind a method of chemically upcycling fibreglass, has a Canadian co-founder with a dream to develop a commercial-scale facility in his home country.

Global Battery Materials Corp. wants to reopen an Ontario graphite mine and produce anode materials from the ores, creating a North American source of a critical mineral that can be used to make the battery component.

Vancouver-based electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions provider and operator Hypercharge Networks Corp. (HC-X) has acquired Eddie from Quebec-based AXSO, bringing both the brand and over 2,700 EV ports into its network.