The Climate Conversations: Can Clean Tech Rise to the Challenge?

As Canada and the world search for solutions on how to bring down global emissions, many are looking with hope to the technology sector. And in the world of technology, the Greater Vancouver Area—home to 25 percent of Canada’s clean-tech companies—represents a beacon of hope.

In this second episode of a special three-part “Climate Conversations” series on Disruptors, an RBC podcast, host John Stackhouse travels through the heart of B.C.’s Clean Tech Valley and meets several innovators working to decarbonize Canada’s economy.

The first stop on the road trip takes John to carbon capture innovator Svante Inc., where we meet the Burnaby company’s CFO Matt Stevenson. Next up is Loop Energy, also in Burnaby, where John gets a tour of the fuel-cell manufacturer from Loop’s Director of Operations, Rob Stevenson, and CEO Ben Nyland. And the final stop takes John to Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood, where we meet Jay Giraud, the CEO and co-founder of electric motorcycle pioneer Damon Motors Inc.

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To read more about Svante’s carbon capture technologies, and where it’s being applied in the industrial sector, follow this link.

Loop Energy’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is being used in both the transportation sector as well as for stationary power generation. To learn more, click here.

Damon Motors is building a new 110,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Surrey, B.C., capable of producing 40,000 electric motorbikes a year. To read more about that, click here. For more on Damon’s EV technology, follow this link.

Finally, click here to read, “The New Climate Bargain” a new RBC Economics and Thought Leadership report on how Canada can play a role in calming nervous oil markets while developing a framework for a competitive—and decarbonized—oil-and-gas sector.

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