1. Industrial policy: Work with key stakeholders to identify technology-specific goals and align policies + spending to achieve those goals. Fast-tracking big projects has merits, but we must also invest to build new homegrown industries that suit a net-zero world. www.nzab2050.ca/publications...
2. Send the right policy signals: The government needs to finalize announced policies and strengthen existing policies to provide certainty to investors and industry. It is crucial, for example, to increase performance standards and transparency in the industrial pricing system.
3. Develop a net-zero energy vision: With demand for oil, gas and coal set to peak in the next decade, we need an energy vision for Canada that includes achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 to shape our actions, policies and investments. We laid out a template: www.nzab2050.ca/publications...