His drive to this role he developed the REDD Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic bring private sector investment to framework of market incentives to Studies at the Université du the space led to an energy-focused reduce deforestation, subsequently Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and MBA and a stint with a UK-based published and adopted by more was a Public Policy Scholar at the clean energy fund making ta [...] In his 2012 and the Economy (NRTEE) ranked Canada sixth in the State of the Union Address, President Obama spoke of G8 on its low-carbon performance index, due largely to how the U. S. government’s partnership with the private our high-carbon economy and the weak performance sector has positioned America to be the world’s leading of our low-carbon policy and institutions.23. [...] The United States leads the world in its Canadian cleantech companies confirmed that the lack use of procurement to stimulate innovation through of domestic adoption and domestic references was the the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) number one barrier to their growth abroad: foreign program, which was piloted in 1982 and has since purchasers are understandably reluctant to purchase beco [...] SDTC was established to – which measures the financial and environmental help fill the cleantech “pre-commercial gap”, the phase efficiency of a product over its lifetime – found between early research and the demonstration that a The Innovation Chain and the Funding Gap Source: SDTC, The Funding Gap, . [...] Cooperation between the EDC and the IFC on financing in emerging markets, and will create new cleantech, which began in 2012, should be encouraged debt finance products suited to these target markets.48 and expanded.50 The government should work closely with EDC to explore the idea of extending sovereign Canada has the institutional framework needed to guarantees targeted to incentivize investment
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