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Canada's pension plan shouldn’t be a cheerleader for Alberta’s oil and gas industry

Corporate Knights

Canadians require a livable planet on which to retire, and climate scientists and energy modellers are clear that limiting global temperature increase to 1.5℃ It should be obvious that achieving this mandate is dependent on stabilizing global temperatures at relatively safe levels. CPPIB appears to have flunked this test.

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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

After months of contentious debate, the EU agreed to add natural gas and nuclear to its EU taxonomy, the official list of acceptable sustainable investments to help Europe finance its ambitious climate goals. By 2022, the conversation around nuclear was shifting around the globe. congressional hearings in the 1980s.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. The average percentage of sustainable revenues achieved by 2023 Best 50 companies is 46.3%, up from 36.8% Especially if they want to succeed long-term.

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Canadian pension funds ignore rapid rise in climate dangers

Corporate Knights

There is no retirement security unless we have a safe climate future to retire into.

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Take Five: Lessons Learned

Chris Hall

He did this while sitting next to Professor Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, effectively the world’s senior climate scientist. C would be reached by the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Net Zero Progress by Firms and Governments “Still Too Slow”

Chris Hall

Climate policy response by governments and investment in clean technologies must be accelerated to keep temperature rise near 1.5°C, C, according to industry experts speaking at Morningstar’s ‘ Sustainable Investing Summit 2023 ’.

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Mindset Shift

Chris Hall

By continuing to follow predictions from central banks and other established sources of economic wisdom, companies and investors are making the wrong calls on their sustainable investment policies and climate transition plans, Keen argued. Those who make policies are trained in economics – not in science,” he said.