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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

18 Feb 2024

We appreciate the vision and support of the Public Policy Forum, the Action Canada staff, advisors, board, and the alumni community for crafting this opportunity to allow us to grow as leaders, policy-makers, and community influencers. [...] There is currently no comprehensive, national policy regime in Canada that fully considers the economic, regulatory, This report explores the national and international environmental, and technical requirements for the landscape of EV battery repurposing and recycling effective management of EV battery waste. [...] This influences batteries are managed sustainably when they reach the speed of decarbonization, the supply of critical EoVL, further establishing Canada’s competitive minerals, and the viability and environmental presence in the EV battery ecosystem. [...] 18 Action Canada 3.1 - ENABLING CONDITIONS AND BUILDING CAPACITY RECOMMENDATION 1: Incentivize market conditions to support the battery repurposing and recycling sector in Canada All levels of government should aim to maximize the Finally, it is recommended that EV battery economic and environmental benefits of Canada’s repurposing and recycling technologies be explicitly nascent battery manufactu. [...] With world class R&D facilities at the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and the University of Windsor49 and Hydro-Québec’s Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage holding key patents for lithium-iron-phosphate cathodes and solid-state batteries,50 further investment in R&D on repurposing and recycling is a logical next step that would position Canada a.
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