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Climate Institute launches cutting-edge data tool tracking Canada’s progress toward building a clean economy

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11 hours ago

November 12, 2026

Data tracker offers a new way to measure climate progress with dozens of leading indicators of Canada’s energy transition.

OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 12, 2026 /CNW/ — The Canadian Climate Institute has launched a first-of-its-kind data visualization tool that provides a new approach to climate progress tracking in Canada using leading and lagging indicators of clean technology adoption and emissions reductions.

The tool–called the Climate Progress Tracker–was developed by the Institute’s 440 Megatonnes project using more than 40 indicators of the country’s transition to a cleaner, more competitive economy. It provides close-to-real-time data across five major signals of climate progress: electrification, clean energy, emissions progress, industrial performance, and the clean economy.

Tracking both leading and lagging indicators across these five signals makes it clear where efforts are showing promise, and where stronger policy is needed to accelerate Canada’s energy transition and build a cleaner economy. Some leading indicators show bright spots of progress as the country deploys and exports more clean technology. Broader trends are mixed or negative, however, with national emissions plateauing and insufficient progress being made on clean electrification–the foundation of a more resilient, competitive economy.

KEY FINDINGS

Among the positive findings: the tracker shows the country’s electric vehicle market share has nearly doubled over the past year and a half, reaching 13 per cent this August. That’s up from just 7 per cent in February 2025, following a crash in sales due to a rollback in government support. Wind and solar power capacity has grown by nearly 7 gigawatts since 2020, an increase of more than 40 per cent. Battery storage capacity has ramped up more than sixfold since 2020, rising to almost 900 MW in January 2026.

Clean technologies are growing in other ways. Clean tech exports have grown by nearly 1.8 times their 2020 levels in 2026. The share of made-in-Canada clean tech has also grown, up 11 per cent since 2020, with 81 per cent of the share of Canada’s clean technology market now supplied by domestically manufactured products rather than imports in August 2026.

Yet overall trends show Canada facing headwinds in its energy transition. Electricity is not yet growing as a share of the country’s energy use, though that could change as governments follow through on a commitment to double Canada’s electricity supply. The country’s power grids are also not getting cleaner in general. Although wind and solar power has grown, some hydro and nuclear power have come offline temporarily, and gas-fired power has filled that gap. As a result, the share of non-emitting power generation in August 2026 dropped 6 percentage points from the same month in 2020.

Likewise, Canada continues to make limited progress reducing emissions. The tracker provides a broader picture of climate progress by pairing leading indicators with new monthly emissions estimates that are tallied in near real time, with just a three-month delay. That can provide a preliminary look at emissions six months ahead of the Institute’s annual Early Estimate of National Emissions, and more than a year before official government numbers are released.

The latest data on the tracker show that Canada’s emissions appear to be plateauing: after a slight increase in 2025, emissions decreased slightly in the first half of 2026. However, that decrease still leaves Canada far from achieving its climate targets.

Tracking leading and lagging indicators of progress is a growing practice globally as governments, investors, and analysts seek more current, data-driven signals to inform decision making. Similar frameworks have been adopted by climate councils in the UK, Sweden, and Australia; by publicly available platforms like the Systems Change Lab and Ember; and by many private sector firms tracking capital flows and energy system trends.

The 440 Megatonnes team will continue to develop new indicators in the year ahead, including measures of clean investment. Ultimately, the new interactive tool is meant to provide a more actionable view of Canada’s progress towards decarbonization, showing where governments can prioritize efforts and investment to ensure future progress aligns with commitments.

QUOTES

“Canada’s climate progress is about more than just emissions–it’s about a broader transition to clean, electric technologies that are remaking global energy markets in real time. Our Climate Progress Tracker is the only tool of its kind in Canada to offer a broader picture of this progress with easy-to-use data and visualizations showing how the country is building a cleaner economy across sectors.”

— Rick Smith, President, Canadian Climate Institute

“The Climate Progress Tracker is an interactive way for people to access a wide range of data showing how Canada is transitioning to a cleaner economy–from electric vehicle and heat pump sales to detailed emissions estimates that are available nowhere else. It’s a one-stop-shop for energy experts, policymakers, journalists and others interested in Canada’s progress adopting clean technologies using dozens of the latest graphs and charts profiling the energy transition.”

— Ross Linden-Fraser, Acting Director, 440 Megatonnes

RESOURCES

Data tool | Climate Progress TrackerInsight | Introducing the Climate Progress TrackerInsight | Early estimate finds that Canada’s emissions increased in 2025 as clean electrification laggedInsight | Canada is now more than 20 years behind its 2030 target, with net zero nowhere in sight

About the Canadian Climate Institute

The Canadian Climate Institute is Canada’s leading climate change policy research organization. The Institute produces rigorous analysis, economic modelling, and in-depth research focused on incentivizing clean economic growth and low-carbon competitiveness, reducing emissions and accelerating Canada’s net zero energy transition, and making our economy and infrastructure more resilient to a warming climate.

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AiPrise Launches Token Sharing to Reduce Duplicate Compliance Checks

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29 minutes ago

November 12, 2026

AiPrise Token Sharing infrastructure enables financial institutions to securely exchange verified customer information, eliminate duplicate compliance work, and collaborate on ongoing compliance requests.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPrise, an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform, today announced the launch of AiPrise Token Sharing, a new capability that lets two companies working on the same transaction securely share verified customer information. Each institution keeps full control over its own compliance requirements and decisions.

Repeat business verifications on AiPrise have increased sixfold over the past year, with some businesses verified by as many as 13 different companies over the platform’s history. The growth reflects how payments now move: a single cross-border transaction can involve an on-ramp, a payout partner and local banking providers, each with its own onboarding.

Each of those companies typically collects the same documents and runs its own Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks, even when another institution has already verified the information. For compliance teams, that means duplicated work. For the business, it means slower onboarding and delayed transactions.

AiPrise Token Sharing is built to remove that duplication. Rather than sharing only a pass-or-fail verification result, it gives participating companies access to the underlying evidence, including the information provided, checks performed, sources consulted and supporting audit trail. With the verified party’s consent, receiving companies can reuse checks that meet their own requirements, request additional information where necessary and make their own compliance decisions.

alfred, BlindPay, Conduit, dLocal, KAST, Mesta, MoneyGram, nsave, Saber Money, Tazapay and Walapay are among the companies participating in the network.

Breaking Down the Compliance Silos of Global Finance

“Financial services have become deeply interconnected, but compliance is still done in isolation,” said Rushabh Shah, Co-CEO of AiPrise. “The answer isn’t asking institutions to take each other’s decisions at face value. We believe the future of compliance isn’t simply faster verification. It’s letting verified information move between institutions while each keeps its own compliance responsibilities.”

Today, when one institution passes a verification to another, compliance teams have two choices: accept the other institution’s verification as it is, or start over. AiPrise Token Sharing gives them a middle path: reuse what fits their own rules without skipping their own checks. They can reuse KYC and KYB information already collected by a partner where it meets their policy, run only the extra checks their policy requires, and raise any follow-up questions through the same token.

Unlike a one-time handoff, the token stays active for the life of the customer relationship. An institution can ask for more information or answer a request without restarting onboarding or chasing documents over email. For transactions that involve multiple financial platforms, these requests traditionally take three to five days to resolve. By letting institutions work directly through the same token, AiPrise aims to significantly reduce these delays, helping customers activate and transact sooner.

Building Compliance Infrastructure for the Global Economy

AiPrise envisions a financial system where the work behind every verification can be shared and built on across institutions, products and borders, rather than repeated with every new relationship.

Token Sharing lays the groundwork for that future, starting with transactions where institutions already work side by side.

“Businesses shouldn’t have to start from scratch every time they join a new financial platform,” said Chaitanya Sarda, CEO of AiPrise. “We know because we’ve lived it: we were KYB’d 27 times in our first six months, with each bank, payment provider and vendor asking for the same documents and checking the same registries. Verified information should be able to move with businesses as they build new financial relationships, without taking control away from the compliance teams responsible for making those decisions.”

Availability

AiPrise Token Sharing is available to AiPrise customers from today, November 12, 2026.
For more information about AiPrise Token Sharing, visit aiprise.com/features/token-sharing.

About AiPrise

AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform. Through a single API, companies run KYB, KYC, AML screening and document verification across 200+ countries and 500+ government and business registries. AiPrise’s AI agents analyze the results and help compliance teams decide, in minutes instead of days, whether a business or individual is safe to onboard. Leading payment companies, marketplaces, neobanks, crypto platforms and financial institutions rely on AiPrise to scale their compliance, risk and fraud operations globally. AiPrise is backed by Y Combinator and headquartered in San Jose, California. Learn more at aiprise.com.

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AiPrise Launches Token Sharing to Reduce Duplicate Compliance Checks

Published

29 minutes ago

November 12, 2026

alfred, BlindPay, Conduit, dLocal, KAST, Mesta, MoneyGram, nsave, Saber Money, Tazapay and Walapay are among the companies participating in the network.

Breaking Down the Compliance Silos of Global Finance

Building Compliance Infrastructure for the Global Economy

AiPrise envisions a financial system where the work behind every verification can be shared and built on across institutions, products and borders, rather than repeated with every new relationship.

Token Sharing lays the groundwork for that future, starting with transactions where institutions already work side by side.

Availability

AiPrise Token Sharing is available to AiPrise customers from today, November 12, 2026.
For more information about AiPrise Token Sharing, visit aiprise.com/features/token-sharing.

About AiPrise

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Positron AI Named to the Inaugural 2026 AI 100 List of Top Private AI Companies

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29 minutes ago

November 12, 2026

Recognition comes amid a period of significant momentum for Positron, following its $875 million Series C and expanding AI inference deployments

RENO, Nev., Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Positron AI, the AI inference hardware company built to make generative AI dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient, today announced it has been named to the inaugural 2026 AI 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private AI companies in the world, published by Newcomer in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 recognizes leading private companies driving innovation across the AI ecosystem. Positron’s inclusion reflects its progress in bringing purpose-built inference technology to market as growing AI adoption drives demand for more cost- and energy-efficient infrastructure.

“We’re honored to be recognized among the companies shaping the future of AI,” said Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI. “Making AI inference profitable, scalable and accessible takes advanced technology and a business and supply chain built to serve some of the world’s largest technology companies. Positron combines deep semiconductor and systems expertise with customer-driven development and investor backing to position us for growth. I’m proud of the business we’re building as we serve customers today and develop our next generation of technology, and grateful to our team, customers, partners and investors for their support.”

Positron’s recognition follows a series of major company milestones. In September, the company announced an $875 million Series C financing at a $5 billion valuation to accelerate development of its next-generation Asimov silicon, ramp production of Titan and expand manufacturing capacity. Positron has also deployed more than 50 racks of Atlas, its first-generation inference system, at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Most recently, the company announced a partnership with General Compute, which is purchasing Atlas systems and has committed to adopting Titan to support next-generation AI workloads.

The inaugural AI 100 evaluated nominated companies and recognized category leaders across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). Only independent AI companies that have not had a majority strategic or private equity M&A transaction or a public listing were eligible. Honorees span foundation models, AI infrastructure and compute, developer tools and agents, AI apps, vertical AI, security, physical AI and robotics, and deeptech and AI for science.

“The artificial intelligence startup set plays by its own rules: there are upstarts with unprecedented revenue growth, companies profiting off of seemingly insatiable inference spending, highly valued speculative research labs, and wildly ambitious robotics companies. These AI native startups are already reshaping the global economy. With our friends at Bessemer, we rethought what matters for the AI age, bringing together the most promising startups harnessing foundation models to transform our digital and physical world,” said Eric Newcomer, founder of Newcomer.

“The AI 100 puts a spotlight on the top 100 companies driving the AI economy forward, built by a generation of founders moving at a speed and scale we’ve never seen before. We’re already seeing that exponential value creation play out across infra, AI applications, and physical AI. The remarkable part is that it’s still early: this inaugural cohort is just the starting point, a natural evolution of our decade-long Cloud 100 franchise,” said Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 is published at ai100.newcomer.co, and was unveiled live onstage at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco.

About Positron AI
Positron AI builds hardware and software to make AI inference dramatically cheaper and more energy efficient. The company’s shipping product, Atlas, is deployed at hyperscaler scale today, and its next-generation custom silicon, Asimov, tapes out in late 2026 with production in the second half of 2027. Asimov powers Titan, a multi-terabyte-memory inference system for long-context and next-generation AI workloads. Positron’s energy-efficient architecture allows its systems to be deployed in air-cooled or liquid-cooled data centers at varying rack densities, without dependence on constrained HBM or CoWoS supply chains. Learn more at positron.ai.

About Newcomer
Newcomer is a media company covering the business of startups and venture capital, founded by independent journalist Eric Newcomer. We write a newsletter, produce a podcast, host technology summits, and more. https://www.newcomer.co/

About Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build enduring companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry-defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. www.bvp.com

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