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Climate-Conscious Boards: Leading Canada’s Tech Firms to Sustainability
Canadian technology companies are increasingly vulnerable to climate-related risks, including extreme weather events, supply chain disruptions, rising insurance costs, and more stringent regulatory requirements. As they navigate these growing challenges, directors across the sector must fulfill their legal duties of care, diligence, and loyalty by proactively overseeing climate-related financial risks and ensuring that climate considerations […]
Read moreDirectors’ Duties & Climate Change in Japan: 2025
Japanese directors should identify and manage risks and opportunities relating to climate change. If they don’t, they could face personal liability for failing to act in accordance with their legal duties. This report provides comprehensive legal guidance on corporate directors’ responsibilities under Japanese law, outlining their duties to identify, disclose, and manage climate-related risks.
Read moreCultivating effective climate governance: A guide for small farm corporations in Canada
Planning for climate change, beyond the farmgate and the immediate crop season, is the purpose of this guide, intended for farms smaller than 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres). Directors of smaller farm corporations need to have effective climate governance in place and consider climate-related risks and opportunities in their decision-making to ensure the farm business they […]
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Read moreUnearthing a Greener Future: Digging Deeper into Effective Climate Governance in the Canadian Mining Sector
Major mining companies are facing climate-related risks and opportunities such as floods, fires, droughts, policy and regulation adjustments, market shifts, and technological adaptations. Directors of major mining companies have a fiduciary duty to be cognizant of these risks and opportunities and to act on them with care, skill, and diligence. This includes being continually aware […]
Read moreA Just Transition: A Guide for NGO and Civil Society Members to Provincial Regulation of Directors’ Duties Concerning Climate-related Risks
Non-governmental organizations (NGO) and members of civil society continue to press for effective legislation to meaningfully address the causes and impacts of climate change, including environmental protections, mitigation and adaptation measures, climate accountability, and net-zero carbon emissions strategies. More recently, they have recognized that the transition to net-zero emissions requires a whole-economy approach, which means […]
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