The Ontario government pledged a total of $1.6 million for research into tackling the problem of greenhouse gas emissions as part of their Climate Change Action Plan.
The announcement was made at Laurentian University on Friday as part of their research week celebration. The funding will support large industries in industries in their quest to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science Reza Moridi, said.
The funding was announced as part of a joint initiative between TargetGHG program and its partner Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
The TargetGHG program will help Ontario meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets by encouraging large industrial plants to adopt leading-edge technology and supporting Ontario's entrepreneurs in developing creative new solutions in the clean-tech sector by funding innovative projects.
The funding will be used to support Landscape Carbon Accumulation Research (L-CARE) project which combines industry-academic collaborative research and development projects.
The L-CARE project will address Ontario's 2020-2030 targets for greenhouse gas emission reduction and aims at bringing significant economic benefits to Ontario in terms of creating jobs, and bringing revenues.
The project is being conducted in partnership with Vale Canada Limited, Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations(Sudbury INO), and the City of Greater Sudbury, as well as co-investigators and collaborators—McMaster University, Trent University, Queen's University, Université de Sherbrooke, and Université du Québec à Montréal, and collaborators from Cambridge University, Cornell University, The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and the Canadian Forest Service.
