Prime Minister Trudeau Commits $150 Million to Two Cleantech Funds

Justin Trudeau is voicing his support for Canadian cleantech at the opening plenary session of the Glob clean tech conference in Vancouver, where Trudeau and B.C. Premier Christy Clark will discuss environmental innovation and the investment and job opportunities that come with it.
According to an article on the Huffington Post:

Trudeau will also commit some $150 million to two new clean tech funds in an effort to spur faster industry growth.
It’s the optimistic and widely appealing upside of the global low-carbon transition that 195 countries signed on to in Paris at COP21, the United Nations climate conference in December.
But the difficult, fractious and immediate realities of that transition appear likely to intrude before Trudeau’s day is over.
Premiers from all 13 provinces and territories, along with indigenous leaders, are in Vancouver today and Thursday to begin hammering together a pan-Canada climate policy framework.

 
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