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Scaling impact investing in Canada through mobilizing asset owners
The Canadian Impact Investing Working Group (CIIWG), led by Fondaction, commissioned this research to better understand the drivers and opportunities for Canadian asset owners to allocate capital to scale the impact investing market with integrity.
Read moreSubmission on Strengthening the Climate Resilience and Sustainability of the Ontario Financial Services Sector
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRAO) has an important role in supervising the integrity of the financial system. The Canada Climate Law Initiative makes this submission to request that FSRAO develop specific guidelines on the management of climate-related risks for entities in the sectors it supervises. We share seven recommendations to enhance Ontario’s […]
Read moreESRS–ISSB Standards Interoperability Guidance
The IFRS Foundation and EFRAG have published guidance material to illustrate the high level of alignment achieved between the International Sustainability Standards Board’s IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB Standards) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and how a company can apply both sets of standards, including detailed analysis of the alignment in climate-related disclosures. […]
Read moreUnearthing a Greener Future: Digging Deeper into Effective Climate Governance in the Canadian Mining Sector
Major mining companies are facing climate-related risks and opportunities such as floods, fires, droughts, policy and regulation adjustments, market shifts, and technological adaptations. Directors of major mining companies have a fiduciary duty to be cognizant of these risks and opportunities and to act on them with care, skill, and diligence. This includes being continually aware […]
Read moreProgress 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 […]
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