Climate Governance Resources

With high-impact weather events on the rise, natural resource scarcity increasing, and the other looming impacts of climate change, boards of directors are facing intense pressure from stakeholders to get more involved in environmental...

An important element in ensuring that climate risks and opportunities are appropriately addressed is the important duty that boards of directors have for long-term stewardship of the companies they oversee. 

Environmental and social (E&S) issues are evolving to be among the leading disruptive factors that can impact long-term corporate value creation.

We have been asked whether directors of Canadian corporations are obliged to address climate change risk. The answer is clearly yes.

The Covid-19 health emergency has plunged the world into unprecedented crisis. It has also forced business leaders, policy makers and investors to confront the great fragility of our global health and economic systems, and shone a spotlight on the...

This guide draws together current legal and best practice guidance for audit committees, to assist them in taking a leadership role in effective climate governance.

Climate change presents a unique challenge for Canadian businesses due to the interconnected nature of the risk.

Climate change has become a prudential risk for Canadian insurance companies, requiring their attention as a fundamental business issue.

As explained in this paper, pension fund fiduciaries have a duty to take into account financial risks and opportunities when managing plan assets.

This primer provides an overview of contemporary evidence that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and their investors

Disponible en anglais seulement More and more, board members are expected to help manage a company’s climate risk and, as a business imperative, be stewards of the company’s climate transition into a low carbon economy.

March 25, 2021

By: Andrew McLaughlin, VP Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Major Drilling Group International Inc. and Jo Mark Zurel, Director, Fortis Inc., Major Drilling, CPP Investments and Highland Copper

Director Spotlight is a regular feature that provides an opportunity for a prominent director to discuss practical insights and critical developments on climate governance important for boardrooms. 

By: Carol Hansel, LL.B, F.ICD, Senior Partner, Hansell LLP

By: Sarah Keyes, CPA, CA – CEO of ESG Global Advisors

Director Spotlight is a regular feature that provides an opportunity for a prominent director to discuss practical insights and critical developments on climate governance important for boardrooms. Chapter Zero Canada recently spoke with Andrew...

What is the greatest challenge for Canadian boardrooms in dealing with the transition to net zero? Are challenges more externally or internally driven?

Sarah Keyes, FCPA, FCA – CEO of ESG Global Advisors

By Heather Wilson, Senior Director, Policy & Research, Institute of Corporate Directors

By: Radha D. Curpen Vice Chair, Vancouver Managing Partner, and National Leader, ESG Strategy and Solutions Bennett Jones LLP

By Jean Paul (JP) Gladu, ICD.D

Director Spotlight is a regular feature that provides an opportunity for a prominent director to discuss practical insights and critical developments on climate governance important for boardrooms.