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Implementing a Sustainable Finance Framework: Top Tips
The guidance builds on the A4S Essential Guide to Debt Finance and draws on the experience and examples of issuers to set out five top tips for treasurers. The top tips are based on the practical experience of treasurers, international guiding principles, and an extensive list of framework examples. The technical team of ACT and […]
Read moreCarbon Pricing in a Federal State: The Case of Canada
Canada has broad-based emissions pricing in place across the country. But this implementation shows a lack of uniformity, both in terms of policy design and policy implementation.
Read moreInsolvency Risk and Climate
There are numerous risks associated with climate change, including solvency risk. For example, there is a substantial shift in investment dollars away from carbon-intensive production activities towards new technologies in virtually every sector of the economy, which means diminished access to capital for some businesses. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has identified material financial impacts […]
Read moreNorth America Corporate Scores 2019
CDP scoring lays down milestones marking the progress of a company’s sustainable journey. It provides a roadmap to companies to compare themselves to the best in class.
Read more4 Questions For: Dianne Saxe on The Climate Change Crisis
Osgoode Professor Cynthia Williams has four questions for alumna Dianne Saxe ’74, ’91 LLM, ’91 PhD, one of Canada’s most respected environmental lawyers, on the climate change crisis.
Listen nowGlobal Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius
An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
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