Green Economy Canada Wins
2026 Clean50 Top Project Award
Green Economy Canada was recently honoured at Canada’s Clean50 Awards as a 2026 Clean50 Top Project Awardee. The Clean50 Summit annually recognizes Canada’s sustainability heroes and most innovative projects tackling climate change and sustainability.
The winning project is, “Fast Forward: Enabling the Net-Zero Transition for SME Manufacturers in Atlantic Canada”, a technical study to understand the pathways to net-zero for small and medium-sized manufacturers in Atlantic Canada, and the opportunities and barriers they face in making the net-zero transition. With our partners, the Pembina Institute and CBCL Limited, we worked with one participant from each Atlantic province to complete technical studies, conducted a scan of policies and programs that could impact the net-zero transition for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and interviewed service providers in Atlantic Canada to understand the local capacity to support the transition.
The results of the study ended in a set of 4 recommendations:
- Accelerate grid decarbonization in Atlantic Canada
- Increase climate education and capacity building for SMEs
- Increase SME-specific climate action financial incentives and rebates
- Boost workforce skills development for the green economy in Atlantic Canada
Green Economy Canada Wins
2026 Clean50 Top Project Award
Green Economy Canada was recently honoured at Canada’s Clean50 Awards as a 2026 Clean50 Top Project Awardee. The Clean50 Summit annually recognizes Canada’s sustainability heroes and most innovative projects tackling climate change and sustainability.
The winning project is, “Fast Forward: Enabling the Net-Zero Transition for SME Manufacturers in Atlantic Canada”, a technical study to understand the pathways to net-zero for small and medium-sized manufacturers in Atlantic Canada, and the opportunities and barriers they face in making the net-zero transition. With our partners, the Pembina Institute and CBCL Limited, we worked with one participant from each Atlantic province to complete technical studies, conducted a scan of policies and programs that could impact the net-zero transition for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and interviewed service providers in Atlantic Canada to understand the local capacity to support the transition.
The results of the study ended in a set of 4 recommendations:
- Accelerate grid decarbonization in Atlantic Canada
- Increase climate education and capacity building for SMEs
- Increase SME-specific climate action financial incentives and rebates
- Boost workforce skills development for the green economy in Atlantic Canada
We believe Atlantic Canada will be a key regional leader in Canada’s journey in the transition to a net-zero future.
Through this study and report, we laid out a roadmap for collective action, with an aim to inform provincial and federal policy.
We are thrilled to be honoured as a 2026 Clean50 Top Project Award recipient, and we congratulate our friends, partners and peers who were also honoured this year!
The Fast Forward: Enabling the Net-Zero Transition for SME Manufacturers in Atlantic Canada project was made possible thanks to the generous support from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.