Canada is a net exporter of most energy commodities and is an especially significant producer of conventional and unconventional oil, natural gas, hydroelectricity and renewable energy. Canada is a key, and like-minded, energy partner of the EU.
Both the EU and Canada seek to improve and diversify energy supplies, promote innovation and increase deployment of renewable energy sources as well as energy efficiency towards their shared goal of achieving climate-neutrality by 2050.
EU-Canada Agreements and the Green Alliance
The EU and Canada cooperate under the
- EU-Canada Green Alliance, established in November 2023
- Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), signed in October 2016
- Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), signed in October 2016
- EU Canada High-Level Energy Dialogue (HLED), established in 2007
The EU-Canada Green Alliance was established to strengthen and further align the EU and Canada’s objectives on energy, climate action, the environment, research and innovation and climate and biodiversity financing.
It includes a joint commitment to promoting ambitious climate action on the global stage through supporting developing countries and emerging economies, pursuing global energy efficiency and renewable energy targets and advancing work to reduce methane emissions.
Under the alliance, the EU also became a partner of Canada’s Global Carbon Pricing Challenge, which seeks to increase explicit carbon pricing coverage of global emissions to 60% by 2030 and establishes a forum for enhanced collaboration on emissions trading.
In 2025, Canada joined the EU as Co-Convener of the Global Methane Pledge, driving the international commitment to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030. In June 2026, the EU and Canada, in a joint statement, welcomed the Call to Action on methane by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres.
EU-Canada High-Level Energy Dialogue
The High-Level Energy Dialogue was first established in 2007 and revitalised at the EU-Canada Summit in 2014. It covers key areas for cooperation such as energy security, energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy supply chains, including for key resources such as hydrogen, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and nuclear fuels and services as well as methane emissions reduction, cooperation on Ukraine, improved market transparency and stability and cooperation in international fora, such as G7 and G20, the International Renewal Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) and explores future cooperation though the Global Energy Transition Forum. On 11 March 2025, the High-Level Energy Dialogue took place in Houston.
The EU-Canada summits
The EU-Canada Summit on 23 June 2025 reinforced a shared commitment to strengthen energy cooperation, with a particular focus on clean technologies and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Adopting a more business-driven approach to accelerate collaboration in these sectors is a key priority.
To support this ambition, the Commission and Canada convened an Energy Business Roundtable on 29 June in Montreal on the sidelines of the 11th International Energy Agency Energy Efficiency Conference. By leveraging the deep economic complementarities between the EU and Canada, participants discussed concrete opportunities to secure and diversify transatlantic energy supply chains.
Particular attention was given to electricity grids, critical components, and the conditions needed to unlock private sector investment. The event was followed by a dedicated business-to-business session on LNG, bringing together Canadian projects and potential EU off-takers.
The next summit is set to take place on 29-30 October 2026 in Canada.
EU-Canada workshops
Several workshops on different energy-related issues have been organised by the Commission and Canada in the past years.
Following the 2020 workshop on energy efficiency, a series of 5 'Canada-EU exchange' webinars were carried out in the first half of 2021.
Under the EU Climate Dialogues Programme, the Commission has organised another series of workshops in the second half of 2023 and 2024, focussing on methane emissions reduction. The outcome of the dialogues will provide the basis for the drafting of the EU Canada joint roadmap on methane agreed in November 2023. More information on these events and the link to follow the webinars are added to the list below.
- 20 June 2024 - EU-Canada Dialogue on Methane | Final Policy Discussion
- 15 May 2024 - CanCH4 Symposium Special Event
- 14 March 2024 - EU-Canada Dialogue on Methane – Business-to-Business sessions
- 23 January 2024 - Boosting transparency and bilateral action on methane mitigation to meet net-zero targets amidst new regulations in Canada and the EU
- 14 September 2023 – EU-Canada Dialogue on Methane – Towards a measurement-based methane emissions framework
EU- Canada workshops 2022
- 20 June 2022 – Virtual webinar: Second EU-Canada Dialogue on Hydrogen
- 28 April 2022 - Virtual workshop: First EU-Canada Dialogue on Hydrogen
EU- Canada workshops 2021
- 6 July 2021 – Data that Informs Efficiency Policie
- 15 June 2021 – Innovative financing and business models
- 18 May 2021 – Supporting local action
- 20 April 2021 – Pathways to 2050: Deep-dive into policy strategies to boost building renovation
- 9 March 2021 - Financing mechanisms and overarching plans supporting recovery and building renovation in the EU and Canada
EU- Canada workshops 2015-2020
- 3-4 March 2020 – Workshop on energy efficiency, Ottawa
- 5-6 June 2017 – Energy efficiency standards in buildings, Ottawa
- 9-10 July 2015 – Renewable carbon sources processing to fuels and chemicals, Brussels
Press materials
- Canada and the European Union Joint Statement on the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres' Call to Action on Methane (23 June 2026)
- Statement: EU-Canada High-Level Energy Dialogue (11 March 2025)
- Joint statement: EU-Canada Summit 2023 (24 November 2023)
- Press release: EU and Canada establish a Green Alliance (24 November 2023)