Eight Reasons for Canada to Build a Clean Economy Now

The shift toward a low-pollution, innovative, resource-efficient economy is the opportunity of the century. The pursuit of a clean economy aims to simultaneously boost economic growth, by capturing growing clean market opportunities, and improve environmental performance, through innovation, efficiency and smart policies and investments – which together lead to better quality of life.

This report outlines eight reasons why accelerating this transition is the path to prosperity for Canada, including global market opportunities and jobs in the clean economy are growing fast, more efficient use of resources lowers costs, and the competitive advantage of strong environmental performance.