Resources for Trustees
Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to improve effective fund management.
2022 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card
Shift’s inaugural Canadian Pension Climate Report Card analyses the climate policies and strategies of Canadian pension funds based on public information disclosed to December 31, 2022.
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Biodiversity Risk: Legal Implications for Companies and their Directors
This paper by the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative analyses the relevance of biodiversity risks to companies and economies in the discharge of directors’ legal duties globally.
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Integrity matters: Net zero commitments by businesses, financial institutions, cities and regions
Report from the United Nations’ High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities
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A guide to effective climate governance in the Canadian real estate sector: Building for the net-zero future
This guide provides information to help boards, management, and professionals in the Canadian commercial real estate sector understand and deal with the increasing implications of climate change and the net-zero transition, including the risks, legal duties of those that should manage them, effective governance practices they should embrace, and where and how to leverage the […]
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The Net Zero Investor Playbook
Investor Leadership Network’s Net Zero Investor Playbook offers an inventory of approaches institutional investors are taking to transition investing and highlights key challenges. The Net Zero Investor Playbook summarizes of the wide range of approaches to transition investing that investors are taking and categorizes them into four themes: Portfolio emissions forecasting and target setting Alignment […]
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Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations 2nd edition
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative has worked with the Climate Governance Initiative to produce the second edition to the Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations. The Primer provides an overview of contemporary evidence that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and […]
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