Chemical Sector Specific Plan

whitePaper | March 11, 2023

Canada’s economy and the lives of Canadians are highly reliant on the materials and products produced by the chemical and fertilizer industry.

whitePaper | July 20, 2022

It’s impossible to think about plastics without picturing piles of soda bottles, filmy food wrappers, and other packaging floating in the ocean or washing up on the shore.

whitePaper | December 24, 2022

Chemical manufacturing shipments totaled $794.7 billion or 13.9 percent of all manufacturing shipments in 2012. According to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the industry is engaged in the “transformation of organic and inorganic raw materials by a chemical process and the formulation of products.”

whitePaper | February 22, 2023

The past two years have been among the most challenging for the European chemical industry. The pandemic resulted in labor shortages, plant closures, supply disruptions and a host of social, behavioral and technological changes that left chemical companies firefighting.

whitePaper | September 24, 2022

Climate action in the global chemical industry is lagging compared to other sectors. As of August 2022, only seventeen industry players had committed to targets in line with a 1.5 degrees future as part of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

whitePaper | May 22, 2022

The authors thank Pramoda Gode, Joshua Miller of ICCT, Puneet Kamboj of CEEW, Gerald Ollivier of the World Bank, and Pierpaolo Cazzola and Craglia Matteo, both of ITF, for helpful reviews. Any errors are the authors’ own.