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Expert sheets
Are you a sustainability or environmental journalist or influencer? Would you like to contact experts in carbon credits, voluntary carbon markets and decarbonization? Check out our Will Solutions expert sheets and get instant access to the key person to cover your media topic (conference, press articles, podcasts, interviews…).
- Martin Clermont : Expert Sheet (Décembre 2023)
- Claudia Lesage : Expert Sheet (Décembre 2023)
- Jean-François Léonard : Expert Sheet (Décembre 2023)
Press Releases
- Buying Canadian is to vote! (March 2025)
- Will Solutions and VadiMAP sign a strategic partnership (October 2024)
- Will Solutions distributes $2.1M to Quebec SMEs that reduce their GHG emissions (May 2023)
- Will Solutions and Salesforce are now partners to accelerate decarbonization (March 2023)
- Brainbox AI and Will Solutions’ new partnership to accelerate GHG reduction of commercial buildings (February 2023)
- A Second Sustainable Community for GHG Reductors in Ontario (January 2023)
- 3-year B Corp recertification for Will Solutions until 2025. (October 2022)
- Strategic Stream Investment Stimulates Will Solutions Growth (June 2022)
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- Will Solutions joins Microsoft for Startups to create new Climate digital Solutions (June 2022)
- SADC du Haut-Saguenay becomes exclusive partner of the Sustainable Community (March 9, 2022)
- IPCC: it’s t minus one! A 5th distribution of carbon income! (September 28, 2021)
- Quebec’s National Assembly to offset its GHG emissions with the Carbone boréal-WILL consortium (May 4, 2021)
- The Quebec company Canadian Food Wholesaler receives support from the Ecoleader Fund and commits with Will Solutions to become carbon neutral (September 21, 2020)
- WILL Announces the Verified Results of its 4th Sustainable Community Cohort (September 9, 2020)
- WILL makes a first sale of Sustainable Community carbon credits on the European platform ClimateSeed (April 22, 2020)
- Maple Leaf Foods purchases carbon credits from Will Solutions (March 5, 2020)
- WILL announces 3 million tons of greenhouse gas offsets released for sale (July 9, 2019)
- BMO Financial Group signs a multi-year purchase agreement with Will Solutions (April 24, 2017)
- A brand/solution is born (March 12, 2014)
- A world first: first PD project validated under the VCS Standard (July 11, 2013)
- First sale of GHG reductions from the Sustainable Community Quebec cluster (June 10, 2013)
- St-Gédéon-de-Beauce’s real actions increases Quebec’s Energy Independance (October 22, 2012)
- New VCS methodology allowing access to the carbon market for low-level GHG emitters (March 12, 2012)
Open Letters
- Let’s stop the $100M capital flight to the U.S.! (Will Solutions/Jean-François Léonard) (May 2024)
- Carbon credits, unavoidable solutions to climate challenges (Will Solutions/Jean-François Léonard) (Les Affaires, May 2024) (in French)
- Reducing GHGs at source: a little-known approach (Will Solutions/Martin Clermont) (November 2023)
- Speech at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (BMO/Grégoire Baillargeon) (in French) (May 2023)
Press and Web Press
- TV Interview : For a Green Future – Carbon footprint and GHG reduction  (Will Solutions/Gen V/Emballages Cartier) (CCIVR/TVR9) (in French) (June 2024)
- Report: Downtown Montreal’s transition to green economy (The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal) (see page 33) (report in French) (october 2023)
- Generate revenue on the carbon market through greenhouse gas emission reductions? (article in French) (Excellence Industrielle Saint-Laurent – February 2023)
- Will Solutions takes community-based carbon credits model to Ontario (Sustainable Biz Canada, January 2023)
- The Carbon Chronicle (Ecosystem Marketplace, May 2017)
- BMO Financial Group signs a multi-year purchase agreement with Will Solutions (BMO, April 2017)
- Imagine up to 10,000 small GHG emitters initiating reduction efforts (Climate Change, The New Economy, Climate TV, septembre 2015)
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Prices and Recognition
- In October 2022, Will Solutions received the Innovation Award at the Gala Grand Richelois, organized by the CCIVR, rewarding companies contributing to the economic, social and environmental dynamism of the Richelieu Valley.
- In June 2014, Will Solutions was a finalist in the Innovation category for Les Prix Novae de l’Entreprise 2014. These prices reward the best of Quebec’s sustainable practices.
- In February 2012, Will Solutions Inc. (Gedden) developed and obtained the VCS Certification (Verified Carbon Stardard) of the first and only worldwide methodology that converts grouped efforts from SME into carbon credits.
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- In August 2005, the Ozone Secretariat – governed by the United Nations Environment Program invited Will Solutions (Gedden) to submit an informal proposal regarding the possibility of developing and implementing a system for tracking the trade in ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
- In June 2005, Will Solutions (Gedden) was a finalist in the Research and Development category for the 2005 Prix Phénix de l’Environnement.
- In April 2004, Will Solutions (Gedden) was was involved in a projet to facilitate the development of an electronic Hazardous Waste Tracking System in Mexico (Basel Convention).
- In November 2002, Will Solutions (Gedden) was awarded first place in the category lesaffaires.com and finalist in the B2B and Quebec SME categories recognizing providers of e-business solutions whose products and services enhance the quality of business processes and generate concrete benefits.
Press references (archives)
The following articles and quotes do not have hyperlinks. This may be the result of different causes: the initial publisher deleted the article in question, the site is not secure or no longer exists, the publisher changed the hyperlink but didn’t add a redirection link, etc. On our side, we have chosen to keep the topics of the articles below as a testimony of our history and our identity.
- From stock markets to carbon markets with the expertise of Will (Écotech, April 2015)
- Écotech Québec is Carbo-responsible (January 2015)
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- Grocery shopping …. carbon credits (Écotech Québec, September 2014)
- Coming to a continent near you: Quebec carbon credit franchises (Écotech Québec, September 2014)
- A world first (C3E, July 2013)
- First GHG reduction sale from the Quebec Sustainable Community cluster to FEPAC (C3E, June 2013)
- Will Solutions on the prestigious IETA list (C3E, December 2012)
- Sustainable development already paying off in St-Gédéon-de-Beauce (CNW, November 2012)
- Will Solutions: Company of the month (Cleantech Drinks, September 2012)
- Small polluter becomes big carbon credit beneficiary (AQMT, August 2012)
- Gedden’s Sustainable Community project is another string to the corporate bow (Ecoconseil / Synapse, June 2012)
- Evolving in a Sustainable Community (Développement économique Longueuil, Winter 2011)
- Will Solutions (Gedden) is a sponsor and speaker at the International Conference on the Environmentally Sound Management of Ship-generated Waste (November 2008)
- CTTEI and Gedden join forces to deploy a global solution for the proactive management of industrial residues throughout Quebec (March 19, 2007)
- Interview Martin Clermont, BNamericas (October 2004)
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