Canada’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 requires a significant shift in how we produce energy, transport people and goods, and manufacture and use products and materials. Efforts to decarbonize Canada’s economy are underway across many sectors and involve strategies for lower-carbon construction, electricity generation, clean fuels, transportation, as well as improving energy efficiency, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

CSA Group’s standards and research play a vital role in these efforts by promoting the safety, reliability, and integration of low-carbon energy systems, infrastructure, and materials across North America. Our standards and research help deploy technologies and infrastructure for renewable energy generation, small modular reactors, and hydrogen. They support the adoption of electric and clean fuel vehicles, help improve the energy efficiency of buildings and systems, and facilitate the implementation of novel carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. We are also focused on methods of reducing embodied carbon in the built environment through lower carbon construction materials and systems, performance-based design and advanced manufacturing. CSA Group’s standards, research, and registries also provide guidance and best practices for performing carbon life cycle assessments and GHG measurement and quantification, and encourage circular economy practices, such as reuse, recycling, and waste reduction to reduce carbon emissions.