Governments urged to push green economy transition by U of O think-tank

By Patrick Ryan Jones, CBC News Ottawa, December 6, 2019

A disparate group of business executives and civil society organizations penned a letter to Canada's political leaders this week, calling on them to lead efforts to tackle climate change and speed up the transition to a greener economy.

"Building a low carbon, high performance economy is a vital environmental responsibility," the letter says. "It is also a major economic opportunity for all sectors and regions of the country."

The 26 signatories in Wednesday's letter to the prime minister and premiers include seemingly-strange bedfellows: executives from an oil company, a bank, an environmental conservation NGO, a venture capital fund, Indigenous groups and a labour union, among others.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/green-economy-canada-report-ideas-1.5386486

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