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Brookfield’s Carney Says Net-Zero Doesn’t Work Without Nuclear Power

  • Nuclear is an alternative for countries without gas, solar
  • Brookfield owns Westinghouse, has been running sale process

Mark Carney

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Mark Carney, the former central banker who now heads Brookfield Asset Management Inc.’s transition fund, said that moving to a net-zero economy will be impossible without wider adoption of nuclear power.

“There’s no transition that works without nuclear, full stop,” Carney said at the company’s investor day Thursday.