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Advancing Canada’s climate goals through sustainable finance: A cross-partisan dialogue
Join us for an engaging online event where elected officials will discuss their strategies for advancing Canada’s climate goals through sustainable finance, ensuring Canada builds a resilient economy and healthy environment. Canada has committed to climate action both internationally and domestically. As part of Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, the government pledged to cut […]
Add to calendarReflections on Connecting Canada’s Climate Policy Network
A new book, Reflections on Connecting Canada’s Climate Policy Network, was published open-access by the Canada Climate Law Initiative in June 2023. This webinar explores the book’s key messages and discusses how to improve climate policy coordination, blurring public and private divides, and revealing where responsibility for change must rest. According to the Supreme Court […]
Add to calendarFossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Transition Risk: How Will Your Organization Adapt to Changing Policies?
The Government of Canada has signed the COP26 Statement on International Public Support for the Clean Energy Transition, committing to prioritize the clean energy transition and end new direct public support for the international unabated fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022, and the Glasgow Climate Pact to accelerate the phaseout of inefficient […]
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Progress and priorities: Reviewing sustainability in key pension systems
Pension funds are long-term investors and their ability to generate long-term returns relies on the performance of the markets and economies in which they invest. Because sustainability factors such as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten the performance of the markets and economies on which they rely for financial returns, pension funds have a responsibility to […]
Read moreCommitted and actual federal government climate spending
Analysis from a report from Corporate Knights’ Climate Dollars initiative shows that the Canadian federal government is at least $14 billion behind on rolling out the climate funding it had committed to spending by now. And since 2015, there has been a 30% shortfall between what the government has committed to spending on climate and […]
Read moreEU sustainability reporting requirements: Implications for Canadian business and policy makers
The impact of new standards for sustainability disclosures in Europe will be felt by Canadian firms with access to European Union (EU) capital markets, or significant operations in EU countries. Based on current reporting practices and given Canada’s lack of a robust sustainable finance framework, Canadian firms could have a significant challenge in meeting these […]
Read moreSubmission to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) on proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters (NI 51-107)
It has been well over two years since the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters (NI 51-107) and its companion policy. The Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI) made a submission strongly supporting a national instrument aligned with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), offering recommendations […]
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