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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

Gareth Gransaull is the co-executive director of Re_Generation , Canada’s next-generation think tank working to build a regenerative economy, and a climate policy researcher with the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria.

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Creativity and Collaboration Vital to Finance Nature

Chris Hall

We have already disbursed US$111 million to farmers as part of this scheme, including through our new ‘GreenGalaxy’ programme that securitises agricultural receivables to fund small and medium farmers – enabling them to transition to regenerative agriculture by raising yields on cleared lands, while avoiding deforestation.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

The Global Resilience Index launched today, will help improve the way insurers, financiers and investors measure the resilience of countries, companies and supply chains. It makes no long-term sense to continue pumping money into an asset that is already destined to eventually have no value — a stranded asset.

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