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Minister of Environment announces Vancouver’s Low Carbon Cities Canada Innovation Centre will be at SFU
News January 25, 2021Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer On January 12, 2021, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced that Canada’s federal government had chosen SFU to house their newest Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) Innovation Centre. The Centre will be created in a partnership with the Renewable Cities Program at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. It is government funded with an endowment of $21.7 million. Wilkinson noted that “its aim is to [reduce] Metro Vancouver’s carbon footprint through research, capacity building, and the use of innovative financing tools.” According to Wilkinson, “Many promising urban low-carbon solutions…
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SFU develops biomass plant to decrease greenhouse gas emissions
Peak Web October 23, 2017Simon Fraser University is set to start construction on a new biomass plant that will power the university and adjacent urban community while drastically reducing emissions. SFU, along with SFU Community Trust, which oversees the development of UniverCity, has partnered…
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