Resources for Directors

Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to remain competitive

May 22nd, 2020

Briefing for Finance: Biodiversity

Loss of nature and biodiversity can impact business operations. However, investing in biodiversity also offers opportunities. It can help to improve the long-term viability of business models, reduce costs and increase operational efficiency and resilience.

Read more
Apr 30th, 2020

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 more
Apr 1st, 2020

Carbon 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 more
Feb 7th, 2020

Insolvency 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 more
Feb 3rd, 2020

North 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 more
Jan 1st, 2020

4 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 now