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Responsible Investing/Spring 2021

A short history of responsible investing

by Toby Heaps

From the Quakers outlawing the buying and selling of humans to the U.K. government buying green bonds, we chronicle 260 years

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Responsible Investing/Spring 2021

Editor's Note: We can’t let greenwash make us lose sight of the prize

by Toby Heaps

Former BlackRock chief Tariq Fancy calls sustainable investing a farce but millions of people investing in a better world can’t be ignored

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Canadian boards legally obliged to address climate risk, new study reveals

by Shawn McCarthy

Corporate directors have a legal obligation to address the risks and opportunities that climate change poses to the companies on whose board

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Climate stress tests are coming to Canada. Are banks paying attention?

by Kevin Quinlan

In the wake of devastating bushfires, news emerged earlier this month that Australia plans to speed up the introduction of mandatory climate

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Bank of Canada mum on unburnable carbon thesis

by Toby Heaps

In 2012, the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook report legitimized the notion of unburnable carbon in one sentence: “No more than

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