The price ot making peace with nature

The Corporate Knights Climate and Economic Renewal Plan describes a pathway to peace based on energy efficiency, electrification and expanding the supply of carbon-free energy. Some of its key components include retrofit, modernize and electrify most of the existing nine million residential and commercial buildings across Canada, with a priority on affordability for everyone, rapidly expand the supply of renewable electricity and storage and increase inter-provincial grid connections, and increase electric vehicle market shares to 100% of light vehicles and 75% of trucks, with 10 million EVs on the road by 2030 and a fully built-out trans-Canada fast-charging infrastructure, supplemented by 2,000 kilometers of new bicycle rights-of-way and infrastructure support. Unlike most of the expenditures on COVID, many of the investments needed to respond to the climate emergency would not only pay for themselves but would position Canada for decades of economic prosperity.