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The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan were given perfect marks for their governance, sustainability and resilience practices in a new report from Global SWF LLC. The report ranked 200 global institutional investors based on 25 elements split among governance (10 points), […]

  • By: Staff
  • July 14, 2025 July 14, 2025
  • 15:00

While the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. supports the goal of net zero by 2050, that doesn’t translate to a hard target for its portfolio, according to Jennifer Coulson (pictured left), the organization’s senior managing director and global head of environmental, social and governance. Speaking in a panel session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 […]

The push to make companies detail their exposure to climate change received a boost last week with about 80 women leaders in business and civil society calling on Canadian securities regulators to restart work on mandating climate disclosures. In an open letter organized by Women Leading on Climate, the signatories said they strongly disagree with […]

A new climate initiative is advising Canadian companies on how to develop effective climate transition plans as part of a larger effort to support a sustainable financial cause. Business Future Pathways — spearheaded by Barbara Zvan, president and chief executive officer at the University Pension Plan — will bring together financial industry leaders for climate-change […]

A decision by the Canadian Securities Administrators to step back from the development of a mandatory climate-related disclosure mandate could impact decision-making at one of the largest pension funds in Canada. Jennifer Coulson, senior managing director and global head of environmental, social and governance at the British Columbia Investment Management Corp., says the regulator’s decision […]

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Canada’s largest bank said Tuesday that it has scrapped one of its flagship climate commitments and is holding back on publicizing other climate progress in part because of new rules around greenwashing. In its latest sustainability report, the Royal Bank of Canada said that it has dropped its target of facilitation $500 billion in sustainable […]

An advocacy group is calling on Canada’s public pension managers to use their financial heft to more publicly work to reduce climate change as political efforts become less reliable. In a new report, Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health says Canada’s big pension funds need to recognize the power and influence they wield and to […]

Implementation of harmonized minimum funding regulations for federally regulated defined benefit pension plans tops the Pension Investment Association of Canada’s list of advocacy priorities in 2025. Currently, DB plan sponsors are operating amid a patchwork of minimum funding regulations across the country, as most provinces have introduced requirements of their own. “A unified ‘going-concern plus’ regime […]

The urgency surrounding the climate change crisis is pushing institutional investors to focus on stricter measurements in the fight against confusing data that delays meaningful action. But voluntary measurements won’t be enough, as investors have already raised red flags against unreliable climate impact measurements getting in the way of their emissions reduction goals. The start […]

Institutional investors are facing significant barriers to including Scope 3 emissions as part of their disclosure strategy for environmental assets, according to a new report by the United Nations’ Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance. It found asset owners need to accommodate Scope 3 emission disclosures as part of their overall strategy to create a meaningful climate-centric […]

  • By: Staff
  • January 13, 2025 January 9, 2025
  • 09:00