Image by Alyssa K. Faoro for University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Delivered by University of Toronto Entrepreneurship and Climate Positive Energy, the RBC Innovation Challenge is an annual, university-wide competition, open to all students, that invites...
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CPE Member Ben Hatton shares his “liquid window” technology in new publication and on CP24 Breakfast
Image: Ben Hatton on CP24 Breakfast Climate Positive Energy is proud with the early outcomes of its funded project with Professor Ben Hatton and his research team, who have developed a multilayered fluidic system, inspired by the colour-changing skin of...
CPE Member Teresa Kramarz to Co-Chair UNDP Advisory Group for Energy Governance
Photo courtesy of Teresa Kramarz Multiple, interconnected global crises continue to hit the world’s poorest the hardest, dramatically slowing down progress towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. For the first time since it was created over 30...
Research Opportunity: Pledge4Future tool that monitors and visualizes GHG emissions in academia
Image: Pledge4Future application demo Pledge4Future is a project to help working groups measure and reduce their work-related CO2e-footprint. By calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to electricity and heating consumption, as well as the ones related...
Highlights from the Sustainable Engineers’ Association 2023 Conference
On January 28, 2023, Climate Positive Energy was pleased to support the student-led 2023 Sustainability Conference. Titled Back to the Future of Sustainable Urban Development and co-organized by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University chapters of...
Climate Positive Energy Announces Just Energy Transition Grant Recipients
The transition to a Net-Zero future involves not only reducing our energy demands and lowering GHG emissions, but also ensuring that the adoption of these new solutions continues to serve local and global communities. Supporting research that assists the University,...
New catalyst design could make better use of captured carbon
U of T Engineering researchers improved the efficiency of an electrochemical process that converts carbon dioxide into commercially valuable products. Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Adnan Ozden (MIE PhD 2T2) holds up a sample of the new catalyst. The material improves...
How a made-in-Ontario collaboration is creating next-generation components for electric vehicles
Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith (second from left) walks toward a prototype electric vehicle created by a partnership between Litens and the University of Toronto’s Electric Vehicle Research Centre, led by Professor Olivier Trescases (ECE, second from right....
Highlights from our Climate Economy Summit
University of Toronto President Meric Gertler delivers opening remarks to 300+ guests at the Climate Economy Summit On November 24, 2022, Climate Positive Energy held its inaugural business conference, the Climate Economy Summit. Along with our co-hosts Toronto Region...
U of T President Meric Gertler calls for cross-sector collaboration at Climate Economy Summit
U of T President Meric Gertler delivers remarks at the Climate Economy Summit, which was co-hosted by the university’s Climate Positive Energy initiative and the Toronto Region Board of Trade (photo by Johnny Guatto) via U of T News Partnerships between the public and...








