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Foresight's BC Net Zero Innovation Network creates opportunities for collaboration and connection among stakeholders and rights holders working to make meaningful progress towards net zero climate goals.
Ecosystem Membership
Our Ecosystem Membership includes access to BCNZIN events, consultations, and a dedicated newsletter that provides sectoral highlights and news related to the broader cleantech ecosystem.
Free
Working Group Membership
Our Working Group Membership are adoption focused, and include access to industry-led focus areas, affordable industry research, project development services, a network of participating organizations, and proportionate cost-sharing of initiatives among members.
Cash or in-kind contributions to working group activities required.
New members are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Foresight's BC Net Zero Innovation Network
We partner with industry and develop solutions by building projects with innovators, academia, government, communities, and First Nations.
Led by industry, we are currently working on the following objectives:
- Reducing Carbon Emissions & Carbon Management
- Energy Efficiency
- Transition to Renewable Energy
- Decarbonizing Operations & Transport Systems
- Water and Forest Management
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Community Engagement and Social Impact
Our Working Groups Include:
Metro Vancouver Clean Transportation Working Group
This collaborative initiative brings together diverse stakeholders with a shared commitment to advancing sustainable transportation solutions. This working group aims to identify, develop, and promote innovative projects that will contribute to the region's transition towards cleaner and more efficient transportation systems.
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Working Group
This working group brings together key stakeholders within the V2X supply chain to accelerate the adoption of V2X solutions and maximize their benefits for British Columbia.
Mining Decarbonization Solutions Working Group
This collaborative effort aims to address the environmental challenges associated with mining operations and reduce their carbon footprint. Comprising experts from various disciplines including mining engineering, environmental science, renewable energy, policy making, and sustainable development, the group focuses on developing innovative strategies and practical solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainability within the mining industry.
Drought Water Technology Working Group
This working group aims to streamline the fragmented landscape of water technology research, development, and adoption to support drought management and water conservation in BC, convening discussions across a range of stakeholders and rightsholders, and exploring collaborative project opportunities. Addressing drought requires changes in policy, water management, infrastructure, and behaviour. Technology, while an important piece of the puzzle, is only one aspect of these broader conversations.
Decarbonizing Water Infrastructure Working Group
This is a collaborative space for municipal and industrial water and wastewater infrastructure managers and planners to map water-related emissions sources, define and advance net zero pathways, and explore low-emission water technologies.
Wood Fibre Insulation Manufacturing Working Group
There is an increasing demand for wood fibre insulation in North America but there are currently no producers on the western side of the continent. With current insulation coming from eastern North America or Europe, there is a tangible opportunity here to add value to BC forestry byproduct streams and manufacture insulation with considerable emissions reductions.
Innovative Forest Management Working Group
Learning from our Scandinavian counterparts, this group explores how we can better utilize our forests. From commercial thinning to innovative harvesting machines, there is a lot of potential to unlock higher levels of fibre utilization for BC.
Fibre Utilization and Carbon Monetization Working Group
Burned, dead, and diseased stands are found across the province and are current carbon sources. How can we use carbon credits, and similar opportunities, to increase the availability of this hard-to-reach fibre.
Opportunities for Industrial Byproducts Working Group
Focusing first on lignin, this group explores the best opportunities for this, and other bioeconomy industrial byproducts in BC, and identifies the key next steps to adding value.
Join One of Our Working Groups!
Membership to our working group gets you access to…
Benefits:
- Industry-led focus areas in each sector including working groups, research, projects, and webinars
- Affordable industry research including secondary compilation, primary surveying, outreach, and analysis
- Project development and management services to solve industry-identified problems
- Access to a network of other participating organizations
- Proportionate cost-sharing of initiatives among working group members
Members agree to:
- Actively engage and contribute to project goals
- Attend regularly scheduled working group meetings
- Review materials, respond to surveys and report on key performance indicators
Membership Cost:
Cash or in-kind contributions to working group activities required. New members are assessed on a case-by-case basis.