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Our Energy Transition: Converting Roadmaps into Plans
There’s no shortage of recent publications from international agencies focusing on the energy transition to net-zero. Most share common features: an urgent call to action, another prompt to investors to re-map their investments, and a degree of generalization that makes it hard for any single organization to act. Although we’ll look at all three features […]
Looking Forward: Climate Metrics that Matter
July 21, 2021 In this webinar, the Manifest Climate team discusses how investors and regulators are seeking new kinds of information from companies on how they are identifying, assessing, and managing climate risks and opportunities. This goes well beyond a company’s GHG footprint. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is currently consulting on […]
Climate Talk Overtakes ‘Growth’ on Fossil Fuel Conference Calls
Alternative Investments’ Role in Responsible Investing
Unpacking the Proposed Updates to the TCFD Framework
Public reporting of climate risks and opportunities has come a long way since the publication of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures’ (TCFD) recommendations in 2017. As of this June, over 2,200 organizations have pledged their support to the TCFD framework, and a number of jurisdictions — including the G7 countries — have agreed […]
Consultation Response for National Infrastructure Assessment
VIA EMAIL June 29, 2021 Infrastructure Canadainfc.info.infc@canada.ca Dear members of the National Infrastructure Assessment team, RE: National Infrastructure Assessment – Consultation Response We appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback on the three priorities identified in Infrastructure Canada’s Engagement Paper on the National Infrastructure Assessment (the “Assessment“). We consider this engagement to be timely and critical to […]
Climate Change: Your Choices Matter
All Hands on Deck as Pensions Tackle Climate Change
What are you doing to future-proof your pension? Whether you are running a pension plan, consulting to a pension plan, or putting your retirement savings into a pension plan, you want those funds to be healthy and secure. That means proactively engaging with the significant impacts of climate change on our physical world and our […]
How to Turn Climate Disclosures into Action – Part II
In our previous blog, we outlined, at a high-level, what it means to operationalize the TCFD framework within a company. We illustrated how developing corporate-level TCFD-aptitude can start with asking some pointed questions. The right questions will reveal whether the company’s internal and external stories on climate change match and whether the climate-related disclosures of […]