Canada should create a green impact fund for technology

While preserving patents as key drivers of innovation, we can create a new scheme of incentives for patentees to ensure that their technologies are widely adopted—a scheme that rewards companies according to the positive impact achieved with their low-carbon technologies in developing countries.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured greeting British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, made a splash at COP26, boasting about how Canada will reduce its emissions, including capping emissions from the oil and gas sector. This effort, however, may be wasted if we fail to bring along the rest of the world, writes Aidan Hollis. U.K. Government photograph by Karwai Tang

Opinion

BY AIDAN HOLLIS

November 18, 2021

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a splash at COP26, boasting about how Canada will reduce its emissions, including capping emissions from the oil and gas sector. This effort, however, may be wasted if we fail to bring along the rest of the world. We urgently need a new mechanism to support the dif...

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