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Canada’s Leading Sustainability Award releases list: Canada’s Clean50 for 2025 - Environmental Communication Options/Huff Strategy

Canada’s Leading Sustainability Award releases list: Canada’s Clean50 for 2025

Oct 10th, 2024 6:39 AM

advance climate action and develop climate solutions. Today’s lists acknowledge the recent accomplishments of 50 senior leaders, 20 Emerging Leaders, and reveals 5 Lifetime Achievement Awards, selected from over 1000 nominations collected nation-wide over the past few months.

75 incoming individual Honourees, members of 25 Project teams and 35+ existing Clean50 members engage today in a full day of intense discussions, designed to identify actionable solutions to the climate emergency that Canada and Canadians can implement, followed by an awards ceremony.

Awardees are forward-looking leaders representing the most effective and progressive organizations taking on climate change from every sector, balancing mitigation with adaptation.

Notably, three MPs from three different parties: the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois, agreed to be recognized as a single team. Julie Dabrusin. Liberal, is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministers of Environment and Climate Change and Natural Resources, and Laurel Collins and Kristina Michaud are the climate critics for the NDP and BQ respectively: three differing parties but three powerhouse women sharing a goal to drive climate action in Canada. Notably missing: anyone from the Conservative Party who might publicly share their beliefs. 

Mayor Mike Savage won recognition for the extraordinary steps he has led in Halifax, as ratepayers voted to raise property taxes by 3% to fund the city’s effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and harden the city’s infrastructure against extreme weather events. Halifax now leads Canada in both areas, with a plan to get to net-zero emissions within 16 years.

PEI shares the same “net-zero by 2040” goal, led by Progressive Conservative Minister of Environment and Climate Action Steven Myers and Sustainability Director Derek Ellis

Other awardees are entrepreneurial, bleeding-edge, clean tech CEOs and young researchers figuring out salt water batteries, how to transport hydrogen, eliminating PFAs, and removing harmful bacteria, viruses, and pesticides from water, as well as venture capitalists, renewable energy developers, property developers and leaders in the circular economy.

“The ingenuity of these 75 individuals is extraordinary,” observed Gavin Pitchford, Executive Director of the award. “Canada must reduce 730 MT of carbon pollution annually, and the 2025 Clean50 have made significant strides toward that goal with more to come. If we’re to meet our commitments, we will owe it to people like them.” Pitchford also noted, “For the second consecutive year, there are no big five bankers on our list. Until they stop greenwashing and genuinely decarbonize their investment and lending portfolios, the Clean50 awards won’t acknowledge their positive contributions.”

The full list of Canada’s 2025 Clean50, Clean50 Emerging Leaders and Lifetime Achievement Honourees appears below, and more details behind all of the award winners can be found on the Clean50 website: https://www.clean50.com Media are welcome for awards ceremony.

Media contact: Gavin Pitchford gpitchford@deltamanagement.com

416-925-2005 / M 774-330-6606 https://www.clean50.com

 

Canada’s 2025 Clean16 & Clean50    

 

*first person or team listed in each of 16 categories is the leader in the category and also winner of a Clean16 Award

Advocates

Angels & Venture Capitalists

Building & Real Property Development

Clean Tech

Consultants & Enablers

Cities & Municipalities

Education & Thought Leadership

Financial & Services

 

Manufacturing & Transportation

Primary Resources

Public Sector

Retail & Consumer

Research & Development

Renewable Energy

Traditional Energy

Technology & Telecom