Advancing Climate Solutions
to cool the planet in our lifetimes.
Advance Climate Solutions works to advance the hardest parts of the climate agenda: solutions and sectors that are early-stage, contested, difficult to deploy or lacking policy and public support.
Our role is to design the policy frameworks, demand signals, and coalition structures that make these solutions investable, credible, and deployable.
The Climate Problem
There is a tendency to frame climate change as either catastrophe or failure. That misses the reality. In key areas, the world is making meaningful progress. Clean investment now approaches $2 trillion annually, roughly 2% of global GDP, and is reshaping power, transport, and industry.
But progress is uneven. Some sectors remain underdeveloped, politically constrained, or overlooked, while near-term warming continues to accelerate. The impacts are already visible in record heat, operational disruption, and growing stress on systems not built for these conditions. Climate change is also an amplifier of inequality. In hotter regions, additional heat is not marginal. It affects health, productivity, and economic stability.
The priority remains clear: the overwhelming share of effort must go toward emissions reduction and resilience. But that alone is unlikely to be enough. Net zero achieved too late, or in a world of sustained high temperatures, carries real risk. A small but growing share of effort must therefore focus on climate stabilization, including carbon dioxide removal and, if needed, sunlight reflection.
At Advance Climate Solutions, we work to advance climate stabilization alongside the essential work of decarbonization.
Why ACS
ACS brings together capabilities that are rarely found in one firm: decades of climate policy and advocacy experience, a strong record of policy wins, deep relationships across government, industry, philanthropy, and civil society, and convening power that comes from leading serious climate conversations across Canada.
Through Energy vs Climate, one of Canada’s leading climate and energy podcasts, and the Rockies Roundtable, an annual gathering of senior climate advocates, funders, and thinkers, ACS helps convene and shape some of the country’s most important climate conversations. Combined with deep experience in mitigation and pioneering work in climate stabilization, that gives ACS a distinctive ability to help move difficult climate files forward.
Our Clients
Our Services
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We advise on complex climate files where strategy, public policy, and sector development need to move together. Our work includes helping governments, philanthropies, companies, and coalitions make sense of emerging sectors, identify where progress is getting stuck, and focus effort where it can do the most to move a field forward.
This work includes shaping policy and procurement strategies, advising philanthropies on where funding can unlock momentum, supporting corporate approaches to climate leadership and demand formation, or helping institutions navigate the practical barriers standing between ambition and uptake.ACS Wins:
Alberta Climate Leadership Plan
Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change
Clean Technology and CCUS Investment Tax Credits
Canada’s first federal carbon removal procurement program
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We help bring the right people into the room and give new sectors the structure they need to mature. Our work includes designing coalitions, stewarding initiatives, convening decision-makers, and building alignment across funders, buyers, industry, NGOs, and government. Our aim is to give emerging sectors the structure, alignment, and shared direction they need to advance.
ACS Wins:
helping build the coalition of private- and public-sector stakeholders that successfully advocated for the federal CCUS Investment Tax Credit
helping build an industry-NGO coalition that informed the federal government’s Carbon Contracts for Difference policy
designing and stewarding the Advance Carbon Removal Coalition, a buyer-side initiative to strengthen demand for carbon removal in Canada
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We help difficult climate issues become more legible, discussable, and actionable. That includes public-facing platforms, strategic messaging, narrative development, and serious conversations that build understanding where there is still confusion, skepticism, or political risk.
Whether the task is public education, institutional persuasion, or giving a new sector a stronger public voice, we help clients communicate in ways that build credibility, traction, and room to move.ACS Wins:
frequent media commentary on Canadian climate, energy, and carbon removal issues
dozens of published op-eds and commentary pieces
hundreds of panel appearances, keynote talks, and public discussions
building and hosting three podcast series, including Energy vs Climate and Scrubbing the Sky
Strategic Platforms
Advance Carbon Removal Coalition
ACS serves as steward of the Advance Carbon Removal Coalition, an initiative of Carbon Removal Canada, focused on strengthening demand for carbon removal in Canada.
The coalition brings together companies, investors, financial institutions, and public partners to help the carbon removal sector gain structure, credibility, and momentum, with a goal of helping mobilize up to $100 million by 2030 for Canadian carbon removal projects.
Energy vs Climate
Energy vs Climate is a leading Canadian podcast and webinar platform hosted by Ed Whittingham alongside David Keith and Sara Hastings-Simon.
It is a place for serious discussion about the trade-offs, tensions, and choices shaping climate and energy policy, with voices from industry, government, academia, and civil society.
Scrubbing the Sky
Scrubbing the Sky is a narrative podcast series hosted by Ed Whittingham that explores the race to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at planetary scale. Inspired by Paul McKendrick’s book of the same name, its first season focuses on direct air capture and the people trying to build carbon removal into a serious climate industry.
Media & Public Speaking
ACS contributes regularly to public discussion on climate, energy, carbon removal, and climate stabilization through media commentary, published analysis, conference appearances, panels, and keynote speaking. This work helps bring complex and contested climate issues into wider public view, and extends ACS’s role in shaping serious conversations across policy, industry, philanthropy, and civil society.
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