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Canadian perspectives on recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure
Canadian perspectives on recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure. What do Canadian organizations think about the TCFD recommendations? Watch this series of video interviews to understand how Canadian investors and companies are embracing enhanced climate change disclosure.
Read moreThree Takeaways from Canada’s Latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Three takeaways from Canada’s latest greenhouse gas emissions data. What we’ve learned from this year’s National Inventory Report.
Read moreStaff Notice 51-354: Report on Climate-Related Disclosure
Staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) are publishing this notice to report on the findings of our project to review the disclosure by reporting issuers (issuers) of risks and financial impacts associated with climate change. The project included research, consultations and review of mandatory continuous disclosure (CD) documents, sustainability reports and other voluntary disclosures […]
Read moreDecarbonizing Heavy Industry: The Low-Carbon Transition of Canada’s Emission-Intensive and Trade-Exposed Industries
The Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources is studying what it will cost ordinary Canadians and businesses to meet Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. It is examining the effects Canada’s GHG reduction targets will have on five sectors of the Canadian economy: electricity, transportation, oil and gas, buildings and […]
Read moreDirectors’ Liability and Climate Risk: Canada – Country Paper
The paper is a more accessible form of reporting the research in the first two papers. It is one of country studies from four jurisdictions, complemented by conferences in Australia (August 2016), Canada (October 2017), South Africa (January 2018) and the UK (June 2016). The national legal papers follow a uniform structure to facilitate comparison […]
Read moreFiduciary Obligations in Business and Investment: Implications of Climate Change
In Obligations in Business and Investment: Implications of Climate Change, legal analysis by Dr Janis Sarra, Presidential Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law University of British Columbia, shows that directors, officers and pension fund trustees must identify and address climate-related financial risk or they may be personally liable for breach of their fiduciary obligation or duty of […]
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