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Meet the people, ideas, and hard-won successes pushing Canada and the world towards a low-carbon economy. From pivotal breakthroughs to the real impact of new policies and investments, explore what’s happening now in cleantech—and why it matters.
Subscribe for Updates- July 26, 2023 Article Foresight Insights, Biomethane: Where it Fits in Canada’s Decarbonization Toolkit What role will biomethane play in Canada’s decarbonization journey? Learn all about biomethane’s sectoral applications, technology gaps and opportunities, next steps, and more in our latest blog by Foresight Canada’s Sr. Research Analyst, Colton Kasteel. View Article
- July 24, 2023 Article Foresight Partners with RSM Canada to Catalyze Cleantech Investment Foresight Canada is thrilled to announce a new partnership with RSM Canada to help support cleantech innovators as they tackle one of the largest barriers preventing Canadian ventures from achieving scale: accessing the right capital. View Article
- July 21, 2023 Article Earth Tech: 2050 – A Customized Accelerator for Canada’s Top Climate Tech Companies Find out why we launched Earth Tech: 2050 and what makes it different. We are focused on impact, not stage, and are building a custom accelerator around each venture specific to their needs and to accelerating their success. View Article
- July 20, 2023 Article Building a Green Prairie Economy | Reflections from the PrairiesCan Engagement Sessions On June 12, Foresight Canada took part in an engagement roundtable session in Calgary, Alberta, hosted by PrairiesCan to discuss the newly minted Building a Green Prairie Economy Act. View Article
- July 20, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: Proteus Waters - Closing the Circle on Waste Wastewater is an underused and under appreciated resource. Proteus Waters is focused on a water recovery and circular economic business model that also has a much smaller environmental footprint, and far lower economic cost, when compared to traditional bacterial options. View Article
- July 13, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: drOPs Solutions The drOPs platform aims to enable water treatment operators to effectively manage clean water production, and acts as a centralized marketplace for all the items a water treatment plant needs in order to keep running. View Article
- July 6, 2023 Article Three Days of Connections, A Lifetime of Impact Elizabeth Thorsen, VP, Operations at Foresight Canada, shares her insights and reflections from attending Collision 2023. View Article
- July 6, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: PolarBlock PolarBlock has developed an environmentally-friendly concrete form that can be used in place of traditional building materials. Their unique solution allows them to reduce the amount of other building materials, is water and fire resistant, and highly insulated, resulting in structures that are energy efficient with reduced operational costs. View Article
- July 4, 2023 Article The Tech Paradox: Climate Change vs. Digital Innovation What is the carbon cost of an email? And how are digital solutions tackling the climate crisis? During Collision 2023, Foresight’s CEO, Jeanette Jackson got real about the pros and cons of digital innovation as we accelerate a global net zero transition. View Article
- July 4, 2023 Article Saving Water, One Pulp Mill at a Time: Foresight and CMPC Launch Low Water, Blue Stain-Free Wood Challenge CMPC, one of the biggest worldwide pulp and paper companies, is seeking solutions to help fight the blue staining in wood caused by the Ceratocystis Pilífera fungus. This stain is currently prevented with high water use throughout the processing stage. View Article
- June 29, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: Closure Liability Management Inc. Every year, the inventory of inactive oil and gas wells grows steadily. Closure Liability Management Inc. (Closure LM) is committed to reducing the number of these uncapped wells, and stemming the flow of CO2e they emit. Their mission is simple: To use their proprietary platform, Praedico, to scale up the capacity of the professionals tasked with tackling this growing problem. View Article
- June 28, 2023 Article Foresight 50 2023: Let’s Attract More Capital to Canadian Cleantech Than Ever Before To celebrate the continuous growth of Canada’s cleantech sector, applications are now open for Foresight Canada’s third annual Foresight 50 - a list recognizing our country’s most investable cleantech change-makers that are leading the charge to net zero. View Article