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The companies remaking energy, food, and industry are being built right now. The Climate Cycle goes deep inside Canadian climate tech, talking to the founders, investors, and thinkers building the industries of tomorrow. Hosted by Justin Reist, founder of Climate Tech Canada.
Climate Tech Canada hosts The Climate Cycle, a technology show with 43 episodes published.
Canada's industrial carbon pricing system just went through its biggest redesign since it launched, trading ambition for stability. Depending on who you ask, the deal is either a major unlock - or a major step backwards.
Climate startups face a commercialization gap: They've proven the science, but are too risky for VCs - and too commercial for a government grant. It's a gap that philanthropic capital is well-positioned to close. Galith
We know heat pumps work - they’ve been around for decades - but actually getting them into homes is a challenge. The gap is structural: high upfront costs, a buying process stuck in the 90s, and a supply chain stacking l
Can Toronto become a global climate hub - and put Canada on the map? Becky Park-Romanovsky is a global leader in sustainability and climate action, with a track record of launching and scaling climate-focused initiatives
The battery storage market is growing - and the supply chain feeding it runs largely through overseas cell manufacturers. At the same time, the first wave of EV batteries is aging out of vehicles, with nowhere obvious to
Canada's carbon removal sector punches well above its weight. We're home to leaders in direct air capture, mineral and ocean pathways and international companies are moving projects to Canada. The question is whether Can
The green fuels transition has a cost problem. Mandates are arriving, corporate targets are being set, but sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel keep stalling on the same issue: price. Jochem Kamstra is the foun
Since 2015, over 200 new contaminants have entered our water systems. Traditional purification technology wasn't built to keep up. Diana Virgovicova is the founder and CEO of Xatoms , a Canadian company using AI and quan
Canada's auto sector faces a choice: follow the US away from EVs, or bet on the technology the rest of the world is adopting. We look at Canada’s new auto strategy - dropping Chinese EV tariffs, restoring rebates, and in
AI data centres are consuming electricity at unprecedented rates, creating anxiety about grid stability, power bills, and backsliding on climate progress by firing up natural gas generators to meet demand. But done right
Electrification depends on critical minerals — but mining and processing them remains one of the dirtiest, most constrained parts of the clean energy transition. While countries like Canada are rich in mineral resources,
What does it actually take to build first-of-a-kind climate projects inside some of the world’s most risk-averse industries? In this episode, three leaders share how they’re scaling climate hard tech in the real world. S
In this episode, I’m joined by Sarah Goodman , President and CEO of NorthX . NorthX deploys non-dilutive catalytic capital at the early stages of commercialization, where founders face high risk, limited funding options,
We sit down with Hayden Smith , founder and CEO of FeX Energy , to unpack why energy storage matters to the energy transition and how their new iron-based storage solution could challenge incumbent technologies like lith
Corey Ellis is the co-founder and CEO of Growcer , an Ottawa-based company building modular farms & food infrastructure used by communities, schools, and grocers across Canada and around the world. We talk about the impa
Kevin Krausert is the co-founder and CEO of Avatar Innovations , a Canadian venture studio reshaping how energy technologies are developed, funded, and scaled. From Calgary to Houston and beyond, Avatar is working with i
Nelson Switzer is the co-founder of Climate Innovation Capital and author of The Gigacorn Hunter. Nelson’s spent his career at the intersection of capital markets and sustainability, helping corporations, institutional i
We sit down with Emily Farrar, co-founder at Genuine Taste , a startup tackling one of the biggest limitations in plant-based food: flavour. Genuine Taste are developing cultivated animal fats grown from cells in co
Apoorv Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Upcycling Technologies , a Calgary-based startup turning industrial waste and captured carbon into low-cement. Cement is a huge part of modern life but also one of the big
Morgan Lehtinen and Sebastian Alamillo are the co-founders of RXN Hub, a new facility to help ChemTech ventures scale from lab to market. RXN Hub is tackling one of the biggest and least-addressed challenges in climate t
Hayden Smith
Hunted Labs
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Matt Loszak
CEO · Aalo Atomics
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Rashmi Prakash
CEO · Aruna Revolution
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Justin Hunt
Greenskeeper · Lake Country DockHounds
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Graham
award winning health writer · Atlantic Council
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Stephen Lake
Jetson
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Sarah Goodman
NorthX
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Marc-André Forget
dcbel
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Jack Bruner
Mammoth Climate
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