What We Do
Advocate, Champion, Connect
Since its inception, CCTA has become the go-to source for cleantech insight, policy input, and advocacy. Through our network of thought leaders, industry associations, incubators, accelerators, and ecosystem partners, we represent the full strength and diversity of cleantech across Canada. Our board and collaborators reflect this national scope.
How We Create Impact
CCTA drives progress by:
- Fostering collaboration – connecting regions, sectors, and partners to accelerate innovation.
- Promoting Canadian cleantech – at home and on the world stage.
- Advocating for smart policy – ensuring decision-makers hear and act on the needs of the sector.
- Supporting companies directly – with introductions, export opportunities, and investor connections.
By building bridges between business, government, and capital, we are helping Canada claim its place at the forefront of the global low-carbon economy.
Blogs & Useful Information
Critical Materials: The Secret Sauce of Modern Defense
Critical materials: the secret sauce of modern defense.
Let’s get one thing straight: it’s Critical Materials — not minerals — that make advanced manufacturing possible.
One Clean Economy Canada – North Star Action Plan
CCTA participated with several representatives of the clean economy to put together this North Star Action Plan. It lays our solutions aimed at this government’s biggest priorities: selecting strategic projects of national significance, reducing internal trade barriers, advancing Indigenous reconciliation, and realizing a federal climate competitiveness strategy.
Budget 2025 – A Cleantech Perspective
1 403-page budget full of elements from across the Canadian economy spectrum. We focussed on measures impacting Canadian cleantech companies.
Mission-Critical: Beyond Mining – Unlocking Canada’s Materials Economy
Our new series, Mission Critical, will unpack the much-talked-about—but often misunderstood—world of critical minerals. This first piece lays out the essentials and places Canada’s opportunities in context.
Should you care about electrification & renewable power?
We’re living through a technological and economic revolution: the electrification of everything. From cars to heating systems, industrial machinery to home appliances, electricity is replacing combustion. But this isn’t just a shift in fuels — it’s a fundamental disruption of our energy system. And to make it work, we need renewables at the core.
A Lot of Hot Air: Why Waste Heat Recovery & Waste Heat to Power Are Crucial Tools in the Race to Net Zero
Next in our “Stumbling Along Electric Avenue” series we cover waste heat recovery and specifically waste heat to power. Every minute, smokestacks across Canada release plumes of hot air—energy that was paid for but never used. In fact, waste heat accounts for up to 50% of lost energy in industrial systems. Yet despite its enormous potential, waste heat recovery remains an overlooked hero in Canada’s decarbonization strategy.