About CFIF - Clean Fuels Investment Fund

CFIF at a Glance

Legal Structure Not-for-profit corporation

ECCC Registration ECCC Approval Pending

2025 Contribution Rate $379 / credit

Capital Deployment 100% Non-Repayable Grants

Governance Industry-Led - No Government Influence

IPF Sponsors BLG + Major Canadian Financial Institution

What is CFIF

Clean Fuels Investment Fund Inc.

Clean Fuels Investment Fund Inc. (CFIF) is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit Emissions Reduction Funding Program (ERFP) operating under Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations. It was co-founded by Ana Avramovic, Jonathan Cocker, and Clear Sky Limited.

The fund is governed entirely by industry. No government body sets the criteria, selects the projects, or influences how capital is deployed. Every dollar contributed by a Primary Supplier is deployed as a non-repayable grant to Canadian clean fuel and emissions reduction projects.

The founding team

Three disciplines. One fund.

CFIF is built on the premise that the right combination of legal, technical, and market expertise could unlock real Canadian clean fuel capacity at scale.

Jonathan Cocker, B.A., LL.B., LSO Licensee

Operations & Development Director

Legal & Regulatory Architecture

25 years in environmental law and carbon markets - former partner at Baker & McKenzie and Borden Ladner Gervais. Jonathan built the regulatory structure, governance standards, and legal framework that make CFIF credible to ECCC, to Primary Suppliers, and to project developers.

Keith Driver, B.Sc., M.Sc., MBA

Technical Director

Carbon Market Architecture & Project Finance

Engineer, MBA, and entrepreneur. Author of Alberta's SEGR, co-author of California's Cap & Trade framework, and founder of multiple clean-tech ventures. Keith designed CFIF's project evaluation framework, capital structure, and the mechanism that makes clean fuel projects bankable to institutional lenders.

Ana Avramovic, B.Comm.

Executive Director

CFR Markets & Industry Relationships

20 years at the intersection of power, carbon, and clean fuel trading at Canada's largest energy producers. Ana recognized how the CFR was reshaping the compliance landscape, understood the relationships that would make CFIF credible to Primary Suppliers, and saw that a well-structured fund could turn compliance obligations into real Canadian clean fuel capacity.

Our mandate

Canada's clean fuel transition.
Built at home.

CFIF is grounded in a simple premise: the compliance capital generated by Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations should flow into projects that build lasting Canadian capacity and long-term sovereign energy resilience.

Supporting Canadian industry

Primary Suppliers carry the compliance obligation. CFIF gives them a mechanism to redirect that obligation into something productive - funding the next generation of Canadian clean fuel infrastructure and emission reductions.

Agriculture and rural capacity

Many of Canada's most viable clean fuel projects are grounded in agriculture - ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, and biomass feedstocks that build economic activity in rural Canada while reducing the carbon intensity of the national fuel supply.

Energy resilience at home

Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations generate significant compliance capital every year, and without a deliberate mechanism to direct it, a meaningful share flows to foreign-produced fuels benefitting producers outside Canada.

CFIF exists to change that. Every dollar contributed to CFIF is deployed into Canadian projects, building domestic clean fuel capacity and keeping the economic benefit of Canada's energy transition at home.

Ready to learn more?

We'll walk you through the full mechanics. Every Primary Supplier that engages now helps define what Canadian clean fuel capacity looks like at scale. One call. No commitment. Your industry. Your call.

Ana Avramovic, B.Comm., Executive Director aa@cleanfuels.ca

Keith Driver, B.Sc., M.Sc., MBA, Technical Director kd@cleanfuels.ca

Jonathan Cocker, B.A., LL.B., LSO Licensee, Operations & Development Director jd@cleanfuels.ca

Shawn McMillan, CPA, CA, ICD.D, Chief Financial Officer sm@cleanfuels.ca

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Built by industry.For Canadian capacity.