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What is the target for NZA for GHG emission reductions by 2030?
23.5MT
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What is experimentation?
The action or process of trying out new ideas, methods, or activities
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Who are NRCan, ISED and StatCan?
Three government Departments that are responsible for the CTDS
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What is Tesla Motors (or Tesla Inc)?
This EV manufacturing company was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, and named after a Serbian American inventor.
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What is the Industrial Decarbonization Team?
This group facilitates and supports the development and financing of transformative projects in Canada's industrial sectors.
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What is PARCA?
A program that is using behaviour science and experimentation to promote climate action
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What are the United States ($10B), United Kingdom ($500M) and China ($376M)?
The top 3 countries to whom Canada exports environmental and cleantech products.
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What is LGES aka Lucky Goldstar Energy Solutions?
A South Korean company that has announced its intention to build a factory to manufacture advanced batteries for electric vehicles in Windsor, Ontario
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What is the Call to Action?
In March 2022 SIF-NZA launched this initiative to target high emitting sectors for significant emissions reductions.
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Who are PCO and ECCC?
The two federal organizations with whom NRCan collaborates on the PARCA Program
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What is $67.5B and/or 3.3% of GDP?
In 2020, clean technologies contributed this amount to Canada's nominal GDP
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What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
A piece of US legislation, introduced in 2022, that substantially tilts the playing field for battery cell manufacturing investment.
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What are the amounts of funding allocated to the NZA in Budgets 2018 and 2020?
$3 Billion and $5 Billion
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What is the Policy Analyst Recruitment and Development Program (PARDP)?
This is the recruitment program that used behaviour insights based experiments to increase self-identification rates of applicant
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What is 2400?
The number of cleantech companies in Canada (rounded to nearest hundred)
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Who is Dr. Jeff Dahn?
A world renowned battery researcher based in Nova Scotia, currently working closely with Tesla
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What are the SIF governance committees for NZA projects over 50M?
GHGIWG, DG IRC, ADM IPPC, DM CPI-IRB, Cabinet
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What is innovation?
This is what TBS is calling the new area of management in the Management Accountability Framework
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What is capital-raising?
The greatest barrier to growth for pureplay cleantech companies
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What is Porsche?
The Semper Vivus, launched by this German company in 1901, was the world's first-ever hybrid car (116 years before Toyota launched the Prius), with an engine powering a generator that sent a charge to the wheel hubs to drive them.
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