Affiliated Organizations
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
NSERC aims to make Canada a country of discoverers and innovators for the benefit of all Canadians. The agency supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes and supports discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging Canadian companies to participate and invest in postsecondary research projects. NSERC researchers are on the vanguard of science, building on Canada’s long tradition of scientific excellence.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
FCM has been the national voice of municipal government since 1901. Members include Canada’s largest cities, small urban and rural communities, and 20 provincial and territorial municipal associations.
GHG Accounting Services Ltd.
GHG Accounting Services Ltd. (“GHG Accounting”) provides specialized carbon and sustainability consulting and greenhouse gas accounting services to corporations, local government agencies and not-for-profit organizations. Our unique service and product portfolio combines environmental management expertise, scientific rigour, accounting proficiency and comprehensive business skill sets with state of the art technology solutions and IT skills. The accurate, environmentally sound and auditable quantification of GHG emissions is the heart and soul of our daily work. Enabling and providing tools and facts that deliver meaningful managerial and scientific decision making to identify lower GHG emission solutions is our passion.
Biochar Consulting (Canada)
Biochar Consulting (Canada) provides technical services to clients who wish to undertake projects utilizing Agricultural Biocarbon, also known as “biochar”, in order to achieve specific goals, whether they are related to energy generation or energy security, environmental goals related to climate change, clean water and water security issues, soil carbon management, issues related to soil and crop health and robustness (environmental stress) or issues related to contaminated soils, site remediation, fertilizer use, nutrient retention and the effects of soil and land management which has resulted in the reduction of local environmental services.
Biochar Consulting is one of the nation’s pioneer leaders in the development of the Biochar industry in Canada and provides professional Engineering Support Services to assist engineering and R&D teams within a variety of industries undertake projects
Poplar and Willows Council of Canada
The Poplar and Willow Council of Canada (PWCC – formerly the Poplar Council of Canada PCC) is a national non-profit organization, established in 1977, with membership from industry, land owners, universities, research institutions, and federal and provincial governments. PWCC is committed to the wise use, conservation, and sustainable management of Canada’s private and public poplar and willow resources.
International Poplar Commission
The International Poplar Commission (IPC) is one of the oldest statutory bodies within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It was founded in 1947 by 9 European countries in the aftermath of WWII destructions, when poplar and willow culture was considered a priority to supporting reconstruction of rural and industrial economies.Statutory bodies are established by the Director-General of FAO at the request of member states to carry out specific tasks in support of the work of FAO and to provide specialist advice in high-priority areas or questions.
IPC now comprises 37 member countries that have accepted the Convention and established a National Poplar Commission (NPC). IPC aims to promote the cultivation, conservation and utilization of poplars and willows of the Salicaceae family. Poplars and willows are multi-purpose species and form an important component of forestry and agricultural production systems worldwide, often owned by small-scale farmers. They provide a long list of wood and fibre products (sawn lumber, veneer, plywood, pulp and paper, packing crates, pallets, poles, furniture and small handicraft), non-wood products (animal fodder), environmental services (rehabilitation of degraded lands, forest landscape restoration, climate change mitigation) and are grown increasingly in bio-energy plantations for the production of biofuels. These attributes make poplars and willows ideally suited for supporting rural livelihoods, enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and contributing to sustainable land-use and rural development.
IPC carries out its mandate by supporting research and management activities through six international, cross-disciplinary working parties dealing with (1) harvesting and utilization of poplar wood; (2) diseases; (3) insect pests; (4) genetics, conservation and tree improvement; (5); production systems, and (6) environmental applications. IPC is the only international forum that brings together poplars and willow managers, users and researchers to facilitate the exchange of ideas and the discussion of topics that are of concern to the member countries. IPC is also the only international authority that has been appointed by the International Society for Horticultural Sciences for the registration of the names of cultivars and clones of poplars (1958) and willows (2013). IPC has had an important role in the development of the forest and timber sectors in rural areas, largely through the transfer of knowledge on poplar and willow cultivation and the exchange of technologies and breeding material.
Alberta BioChar Initiative
Lakeland College and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) with assistance from Western Economic Diversification Canada and industry support have developed the Alberta Biochar Initiative. The ABI is intended to develop and demonstrate technologies that will enable the large scale commercial deployment of biochar products and biochar applications for the benefit of Albertans.
The ABI consists of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), industry, academia and government sharing information and producing and generating biochar for end-use applications including soil amendments, reclamation, remediation, horticultural growth media and conducting biochar lifecycle analysis for potential carbon sequestration applications.
Titan Projects
Titan Clean Energy Projects began in 2008 as a project developer, intending to bring groundbreaking technologies to the marketplace. In nine years we’ve invested more than $5 million and created more than a dozen products across a variety of markets from soil amendments to health and beauty ingredients.
