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BIV on Roundhouse: How Canada's economy is reinventing itself around cleantech

From the 2018 GLOBE Forum stage, two insurance industry veterans join co-host Hayley Woodin for an armchair discussion on insurance, and our changing climate.
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Independent power producers and supporters in government say the industry provides economic benefits to rural and First Nations communities while diversifying B.C.’s electricity grid. Critics counter that B.C. is locked in to paying a high price for power | file photo

From the 2018 GLOBE Forum stage, two insurance industry veterans join co-host Hayley Woodin for an armchair discussion on insurance, and our changing climate.

Don Forgeron, CEO of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, and Louis Gagnon, president of Intact Financial’s Canadian operations, discuss how the industry is innovating to meet pressing climate change needs, and why Canada needs leadership on the broader climate change file.

Carl Burlock of Export Development Canada discusses the challenges ahead for the country’s cleantech sector as it tries to move into overseas markets like China.

Carbon Engineering’s Geoff Holmes explains how carbon-capture technology is turning pollution into something useful and reusable.

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