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Benchmarking – Message from the President and CEO

Message from the President and CEO

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David McLaughlin - NRTEE President and CEO

The “green race” is on. And Canada needs to catch up. That’s the conclusion of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy’s latest report, Measuring Up: Benchmarking Canada’s Competitiveness in a Low-Carbon World. This study is first in a series of the Round Table’s new, two-year policy program called Climate Prosperity. In the global transition to a low-carbon economy, Canadian competitiveness is at stake. We need to determine where we can succeed and gain in achieving a low-carbon performance that will create jobs and opportunity for Canadians. That transition is inevitable, but Canada’s place in it is not. For this report, the NRTEE has developed a new Low-Carbon Performance Index designed to measure how we compare to our most important competitors—the G8—on key and emerging measures of low-carbon performance. We created it to help governments, industry, and policy makers think in new ways about what really matters in this transition. It gives us a strong starting point in figuring out where we stand, so we can determine how we must go forward. Canada must position itself to compete and prosper in a new global low-carbon economy. The challenge is not just about coping with climate change, but prospering through it.