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investing in these new technologies as they become available and
CASF NEWS economically feasible.
As I write this, mid-February, we’re off to a cracking start in Improvement in the manufacturing industry’s emissions profile
2021 at CASF with our brand new President, Graham Douglas in Canada comes from a commitment to invest in pollution preven-
tion and abatement measures, adds CME’s Greco. In 2016, the latest
of UBA/Kencro, who is full of energy and great new ideas.
year for which data are available, capital expenditures on pollution
We’ve just had our AGM combined with our Q1 Board meeting
prevention and abatement totaled $734.3 million in the Canadian
at the end of January and have taken on a management group manufacturing sector. These investments were heavily concen-
to help us run CASF. Graham will have put out his first trated in the sector’s largest GHG emitters: primary metal, chemical,
President’s Newsletter by the time you read this so you will petroleum and coal product, paper, and food.
now have seen most of the exciting news but something I’m While these technological investments by the sector, (and all
sectors in Canada), are paying off in reduced emissions intensity,
particularly pleased about is Mike Kuntz and his Technology &
this is a small amount compared to what is likely to be needed to
Communications committee group’s efforts toward a new
meet Canada’s Paris Agreement and Net Zero targets. In fact, by
CASF website and graphics package. I’ve seen the new logo CME estimates, Canada would need to triple its current rate of tech-
and some of the website ideas and it’s modern, colorful and nological progress, with emissions intensity falling at a 4.9 percent
says a lot about the energy level at CASF right now. average annual pace, just to meet its 2030 emissions reduction
target. Yves Giroux of the Parliamentary Budget Office, (PBO), set
Please stay safe and hopefully you’ll each have been able to
our 2030 GHG emissions goal as 30 percent below 2005 levels and
get your coronavirus vaccination before the next issue of the
the current projection is a shortfall of 77 megatonnes in Canada.
CFCM Magazine hits your desk. To meet our 2030 goal would entail an increase in the 2022 carbon
pricing levy of $50 per tonne, already a large increase from the

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