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CLEANTECH INNOVATION
Government of Canada Measures to Enable the Cleantech Sector In addition to providing financial support for clean technology, the federal government carefully measures and coordinates its efforts.
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upporting clean technology is essential to the Government of Canada’s goals for promoting clean economic growth. The diverse nature of clean technologies across all sectors of the economy makes it difficult to define the sector as a whole and to coordinate all federal supports, but the Government of Canada is addressing these challenges.
Clean Growth Hub
To learn more, visit canada.ca/ clean-growth and canada.ca/ cleantech-data. This article was made possible with support from Natural Resources Canada.
The Clean Growth Hub is a whole-of-government focal point for clean technology, which helps cleantech stakeholders navigate Government of Canada programs and services, while ensuring a coordinated federal approach to clean growth. The Hub understands that finding relevant funding and support for cleantech projects can be challenging due to the variety of programs, including funding, loans, wage subsidies, collaboration opportunities, tax credits, and more. The Hub’s advisors from 16 federal departments and agencies help connect cleantech innovators, developers, and adopters with government programs to
advance their initiatives. Small- and mediumsized enterprises make up the majority of the Hub’s clients, although large firms have also benefitted from the Hub’s advisory services. To help drive Canada’s transition to a more inclusive and resilient clean growth economy, the Hub has also launched an inclusion strategy and action plan, as well as a toolkit to help stakeholders apply for federal funding. The Hub is working to integrate reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities to better understand and meet the needs of Indigenous peoples, women, and other groups under-represented in the cleantech sector. “Applying for federal cleantech funding: a toolkit” is a valuable resource that includes information about federal grants and contributions, as well as tips and links to help cleantech innovators and adopters apply for funding.
Clean Technology Data Strategy The Clean Technology Data Strategy measures the economic, environmental, and social contributions of Canada’s clean technology sector. The strategy informs policy and pro-
gram design, supports sector growth, and enables private sector decision-making. The cleantech data produced is also essential for understanding how aspects of the government’s environment and climate change agenda contribute to clean growth. The strategy’s website provides an overview of contributions from environmental and cleantech sectors to Canada’s GDP, exports, and jobs by province. It also summarizes employment diversity data on the workforce profile in categories such as gender, age, wage, immigration status, education, occupation, and Indigenous participation. To facilitate greater dissemination of the data produced by this initiative, the website is updated with interactive dashboards, detailed analysis, and dates for upcoming and previous data releases.
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