The Buy Clean Alliance is made up of the Aluminum Association of Canada, BlueGreen Canada, the Canadian Steel Producers Association, the Cement Association of Canada, Clean Energy Canada, and the Forest Products Association of Canada. [...] Canada is among Intelligence, Clean Energy Canada set out to the most decentralized countries in the OECD, with determine the amount, location, and type of provinces, local governments, and Crown corporations construction materials Canadian governments buy spending far more on construction materials than the and in which types of projects they are used. [...] carbon in buildings, but this may be the first estimate of embodied carbon for all infrastructure projects.18,19 Until now, the size of this Canada-wide public construction pie had not been calculated, and the true scope of a national Buy Clean policy, from the perspective of both the market size and the potential avoided emissions, was unknown. [...] The company prioritizes sustainable construction, and Alcoa projects include the Pomerleau Regional Office and the award-winning Synergia Complex, both in Quebec.37 Clean Energy Canada / Money Talks 13 Paying the premium Canada’s clean industrial advantage Canada’s electricity grid is 84% non-emitting, making Similarly, aluminum imports from the same countries it one of the cleanest in the world,. [...] 3,52 and aluminum will drop import tariffs in exchange for And even though some products will undoubtedly cost commitments to reduce embodied carbon.46 more in the short term (zero-emission steel will likely have a 20% to 40% premium at first), Buy Clean will And in the private sector, the market for green building help create a market that has the potential to drive materials is set to grow at le.
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