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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 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 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 […]
Read moreDisclosure of Information Concerning Climate Change: Liability Risks and Opportunities
Climate change presents material – if not unparalleled – economic risks and opportunities to companies and investors, given changes in the physical environment brought about by climate change, and given regulatory efforts to limit those changes and adapt to the environment as it changes. As a result of the increasing awareness of climate-related financial risks, […]
Read moreSustainable Finance and Investing in a Responsible Future
The following memorandum provides an overview of how universities are addressing climate change through their endowment assets. In the introduction, a brief taxonomy of sustainable investing is provided – spectrum of capital that looks at traditional investing, responsible investing, sustainable investing, impact investing and philanthropy. We also review some recent examples and trends of sustainable […]
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