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Canada’s Clean50 announced for 2023

TORONTO — The Clean50 award is a distinction that recognizes leaders from across Canada who have done the most to advance climate action and develop climate solutions. The published list acknowledges the recent accomplishments of 50 senior leaders, 20 Emerging Leaders, 25 innovative sustainability projects, and reveals 5 Lifetime Achievement Awards, selected from over 1000 nominations collected nation-wide over the past few months. On Oct. 6, 75 individual Honourees, members of 25 Project teams and over 25 existing Clean50 members engaged in a full day of discussions, designed to identify actionable solutions to the climate emergency that Canada and Canadians can implement. Awardees are industry leaders representing the most effective and progressive organizations taking on climate change, balancing mitigation with adaptation. According to Clean50, the Canada Post team, led by President & CEO Doug Ettinger, has made progress in implementing a plan that will see Canada’s largest crown corporation invest $1 Billion to cut its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 50% over the next 8 years. The City of Halifax is also being recognized for their work designed to get city operations to net-zero emissions by 2030 – and the whole city to net-zero by 2050. Other winners are expanding networks of hydrogen refueling stations, building massive batteries, putting the largest university in Canada on track for net-zero by 2050 or sooner, driving thought-leadership around climate risk and ESG disclosures, conserving land and nature across 1500 sq. kilometers, inventing new technologies to turn CO2 into algae that can be used as food or put to medical use, and building an 1,800 km long power transmission line that will permit 17 First Nations communities to finally connect to the grid. These are a few of the efforts that have been recognized by Clean50. “The range of ingenuity demonstrated by these 75 people and 25 projects is just extraordinary”, said award Executive Director Gavin Pitchford. “Canada needs to eliminate 730 MT of carbon pollution from our annual output – Over the past year, Canada’s 2023 Clean50 have made a significant start on that target – with much more to come”. “If we have any hope of hitting our committed targets, it is people like these Canadians will need to thank”.