Resources for Trustees
Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to improve effective fund management.
Canada Profile – Climate Bonds
Climate Bonds Initiative is an international organisation working solely to mobilise the largest capital market of all, the $100 trillion bond market, for climate change solutions
Read moreVery Hot Days
Very Hot Days are an indicator of summer heat. High temperatures are important. They determine if plants and animals can thrive, they limit or enable outdoor activities, define how we design our buildings and vehicles, and shape our transportation and energy use. It is useful to know how high summer temperatures are likely to become […]
Read moreSustainable Development Report
In 2019, CDPQ published its Sustainable Development Action Plan, comprising 27 actions to be completed over a two-year period. These actions address five of the government’s eight major sustainable development priorities. Our 2019–2020 Sustainable Development Action Plan can be consulted at www.cdpq.com. In 2019, CDPQ accomplished numerous activities that resulted in positive and sustainable social […]
Read moreReport from Canada’s Economic Strategy Tables: Seizing opportunities for growth
The Economic Strategy Tables—a new model for industry-government collaboration—were announced as part of the Government of Canada’s Innovation and Skills Plan to support economic growth in six key sectors: advanced manufacturing, agri-food, clean technology, digital industries, health/bio-sciences and resources of the future. The industry-led work of these Tables has resulted in sector-specific plans for economic […]
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, […]
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