What Does 200 Million Tonnes Look Like?
With the right coaching and support, Canada’s small and medium sized businesses could make a serious dent in Canada’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. This amount of carbon pollution is equivalent to:


More than Canada’s combined total annual transportation emissions—including all of the nation’s cars, trucks, trains, and domestic aircraft and ships.


More than five times the annual greenhouse gas emissions of all the cars on the roads in Canada today.


The combined annual emissions of Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic Provinces.


Almost twice the combined greenhouse gas emissions of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, plus Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, and Metro Vancouver.


6% percent more annual greenhouse gas emissions than Canada’s oil and gas sector.


The quantity of greenhouse-gas reductions that Canada will need to secure, between today and 2030, in order to meet its Paris Agreement commitment.
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Meet Canada’s Clean Growth Leaders
Hundreds of printers, restaurateurs, roofers, retailers, and other business owners and managers across the nation are unleashing a flood of changes, innovations, and adjustments. Here, we spotlight a handful of these clean-growth leaders.
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Michelle Reid
Sustainability Czar
Mills Office Productivity
Sector: Office Supplies
Employees: 105
Lead strategies: Electric delivery truck, electric cargo tricycle delivery
Impact: 32% greenhouse gas emissions reduction per $1M revenue
Shaun Mayhew
Sales Manager
Penfolds Roofing
Sector: Construction
Employees: 95
Lead strategies: Fuel switching
Impact: 30 tonnes greenhouse gas emissions reduced annually, saving $20,000
Richard Kouwenhoven
President and COO
Hemlock Printers
Sector: Printing
Employees: 175
Lead strategies: ZERO Program, carbon neutral paper
Impact: 1,890 tonnes greenhouse gas emissions avoided annually
Jeff Shewfelt
CEO
G&F Financial Credit Union
Sector: Finance
Employees: 200
Lead strategies: Videoconferencing, digital document management
Impact: 34% greenhouse gas emissions reduction yielding annual savings of $9,000 per year on paper alone
Melissa Hoegler
Owner
BC Plant Health Care
Sector: Arboriculture
Employees: 58
Lead strategies: Hybrid and electric vehicles.
Impact: 9% greenhouse gas emissions reduction per $1,000 revenue, 132% growth in revenue
Rob Noel
President
BC Comfort Air Conditioning
Sector: Construction
Employees: 63
Lead strategies: Vehicle right-sizing, lighting retrofits, digital document management
Impact: Fuel consumption reduced 25%, paper consumption reduced 41%, saving $57,000 annually
Scott Mason
Owner
Landsea Tours
Sector: Tourism
Employees: 40
Lead strategies: Fuel switching
Impact: 85% greenhouse gas emissions reduction yielding annual savings of $7,000 per electric bus
Samson Mui
President and Co-founder
Eco Service Canada
Sector: Fleet management services
Employees: 22
Lead strategies: Hybrid company vehicles, route planning, employee engagement
Impact: 16% greenhouse gas emissions reduced per vehicle serviced, 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per full-time equivalent employee
Suzanne Siemens
Co-founder and CEO
Lunapads International
Sector: Manufacturing
Employees: 10
Lead strategies: Order consolidation, shifting to less carbon-intensive shipping mode
Impact: 60% reduction in shipping emissions, 49% reduction in total emissions per revenue