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Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canopy, a non-profit organization that works with the forest industry’s biggest customers to develop sustainable solutions, has been awarded the US$3 million Climate Breakthrough Award. Photo: Alana Paterson / The Narwhal
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‘Risk-taking is an absolute expectation’: Nicole Rycroft talks forests and her US$3 million climate award
Canopy founder and executive director plans to use the Climate Breakthrough Award to scale up her work to shift packaging and clothing manufacturing away from forest fibre to tackle the climate crisis and protect biodiversity and human health
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Nicole Rycroft was in her East Vancouver living room a few days before Christmas, working on her laptop, when a life-changing email pinged in her inbox. The email, with the subject heading “Congratulations,” informed Rycroft that she had just won a US$3 million Climate Breakthrough Award.