foreword

roadmap 2035

Decarbonizing the economy through advanced materials and associated processes

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt throughout society. To tackle these major societal challenges, many countries and regions around the world have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. For this purpose, researchers, manufacturers, governments, and consumers must mobilize and take action. Achieving carbon neutrality in Québec and Canada will require more than one strategy.

In this race to decarbonize, all nations are currently positioning themselves. A nation’s relative position is typically gauged by its finished products (electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, clean technologies, etc.), but the most important battle must be fought upstream.

Materials are at the very heart of industrial innovation processes. Québec, like Canada, must invest in the development and marketing of a new generation of advanced, eco-responsible materials that provide rapid and effective solutions to the many challenges that underlie industrial and process-related decarbonization efforts, as well as our efforts to decarbonize the economy as a whole.

FINANCIAL PARTNERS

PRIMA Québec served as the main funding body for this structuring project, while additional funding came from the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), and Canada Economic Development for Québec Regions (CED).*

* The content of this document in no way binds the government organizations who helped fund the initiative or any of its analyses and activities.
STEERING COMMITTEE
This initiative received commitment and guidance from a steering committee throughout the process. The committee’s active engagement at every stage ensured diligence and relevance for both the approach and the Roadmap.

Maxime Duval – Industrial Development Advisor, Ministry of the Economy, Innovation and Energy (MEIE)
Mario Vendittoli – Director of Economic Intelligence, Canada Economic Development (CED)
René Poirier – Regional Manager, Québec – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Denis Geoffroy – Chief Commercialization Officer, Nano One
Luc Pouliot – CEO, Polycontrols
Simon Thibault – EV Critical Materials Leader, General Motors
Audrey Laventure – Assistant Professor, Institut Courtois, Université de Montréal

Caroline Cloutier – Director of R&D, National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Jean-François Morin – Professor, Institut des matériaux durables
Valérie Boissonneault – Director, Innovation Zones, Investissement Québec (IQ)
Pascal Lanctôt – Associate, Climate Tech Fund, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
Daniel Normandin – Director of CERIEC (ÉTS)
Maude Lizaire – Doctoral student, Mila – Québec AI Institute
Liza Abid – Doctoral student, Université Laval

STRATEGIC COACH
PRIMA Québec commissioned the firm of Sia Partners in support of its activities.

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