Some inconvenient truths in the race to a renewable energy transition

Mining is big business for Canada. With this influence, provincial and federal governments have a unique opportunity to create supply chain regulations that protect everyone in the new clean energy economy.

Shifting to renewable energy is a critical component of curbing global greenhouse gas emissions, however academics and policy makers are focusing too narrowly on the technical and cost-benefit dimensions of managing global supply chains, write Teresa Kramarz, Susan Park, and Craig Johnson. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY TERESA KRAMARZ, SUSAN PARK, AND CRAIG JOHNSON

June 16, 2021

Last month, the traditionally conservative International Energy Agency dropped a bombshell on the international fossil fuel community by calling for a “net-zero” energy system by the year 2050. The report is but the latest in a series of...

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