- As part of the several commitments made in the Roadmap for a Renewed US-Canada Partnership, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources and the United States' Secretary of Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on energy cooperation in June 2021.
- The MOU helps enhance cooperation on sustainable and equitable energy transitions, clean energy innovation, connectivity and low-carbon transportation.
- Specifically, this MOU expresses commitments to creating and upgrading energy efficiency standards, to accelerating adoption of zero-emission and low emission vehicles, to improving access to sustainable and affordable energy for remote and Indigenous communities, and to enhancing collaboration in areas of carbon capture, utilization and storage and carbon dioxide removal.
- The MOU also serves to help Canada achieve commitments to net-zero emissions by 2050 and affirms the shared Canada-US commitment to clean energy transition.
Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Memorandum of Understanding Between the Department of Natural Resources of Canada and the Department of Energy of the United States of America Concerning Cooperation on Energy. 2021. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/resources/international-energy-cooperation/memorandum-understanding/23749
For the news release of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding: https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2021/06/canada-strengthens-energy-partnership-with-the-united-states.html
For a May 2022 update by the Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, on the efforts to strengthen the energy and resource partnership with the United States (including strengthening the Canada-US Critical Minerals Action Plan, and accelerating the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2021): https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2022/05/minister-wilkinson-strengthens-energy-and-resource-partnerships-with-the-united-states.html