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Climate-related Legal Risks for Financial Institutions: Executive Brief
Introduction Financial sector risk leaders, risk managers, and board risk committees are increasingly aware of climate-related legal risks to financial institutions. In Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has identified liability risk as a source of climate-related financial risk facing deposit-taking institutions, insurance companies, and pension funds. These risks include regulatory […]
Read moreClimate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis – Summary for Policymakers
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides a high-level summary of the understanding of the current state of the climate, including how it is changing and the role of human influence, and the state of knowledge about possible climate futures, climate information relevant to regions and sectors, and limiting human-induced climate change.
Read moreClimate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
Read moreAll Hands On Deck: Opportunities for Investment Management Firms to Advance Reconciliation
Investment management firms can play an important role in advancing reconciliation and Indigenous rights recognition as employers, economic actors, shareholders, capital providers and, for those with Indigenous clients, stewards of Indigenous wealth. With input from 48 Canadian investment managers and advisors, RRII developed a framework to describe actions that investment managers can take to advance […]
Read moreAnnual Report 2020-2021
Read moreUnited Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
S.C. 2021, c. 14 An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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