Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership: A major step toward the development of a Canada-US Zero Emission Vehicle future
Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership: A major step toward the development of a Canada-US Zero Emission Vehicle future
February 24, 2021 – Electric Mobility Canada fully supports the Canadian and US governments agreement on the importance of the development of a zero-emission vehicle future and a battery strategy at the first bilateral meeting held virtually with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and USA President Joe Biden and their senior teams.
As noted in their official statement:
- “The leaders also agreed to work together to build the necessary supply chains to make Canada and the United States global leaders in all aspects of battery development and production. To that end, the leaders agreed to strengthen the Canada-U.S. Critical Minerals Action Plan to target a net-zero industrial transformation, batteries for zero-emissions vehicles, and renewable energy storage.”
- Recalling the Agreement’s call to pursue efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C., they will work in tandem, and encourage others to achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050.
- Given the integrated nature of the road transport, maritime, and aviation sectors, the President and Prime Minister agreed to take aligned and accelerated policy actions, including efforts to achieve a zero-emissions vehicle future.
The leaders committed to work with Canadian and American public and private financial institutions to advance the adoption of climate-related financial risk disclosure and align financial flows with climate goals, including the achievement of a prosperous net-zero emissions economy.
“For economic, environmental and geopolitical reasons, developing such a strategy makes total sense and has the potential to make these two countries world leaders in electric mobility.”
For more information :
Daniel Breton
President and CEO, Electric Mobility Canada
Daniel.Breton@emc-mec.ca
(514) 883-9274
