Join us as we explore the latest thinking on ESG factors with leaders in the field, bringing together Torys lawyers from across practice areas as well as external guest speakers. We will discuss current developments in organizational governance, new strategies emerging around ESG investment, sector-specific trends and more.
Torys partner Milosz Zemanek will be joined by a panel of industry experts for a conversation about some of the salient points of low carbon energy investment, from both an equity and debt perspective. They discuss the investment risks and opportunities that climate change presents, including ways of reducing exposure to high-carbon assets, integrating climate-related risks and opportunities into investment processes and the roles that public entities can play in facilitating such investments.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. presentation
11:45 a.m. webinar opens
Guest speakers: Matthew Akman, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Power, Enbridge
Mike Crawley, President and CEO, Northland Power
Sashen Guneratna, Managing Director, Investments at Canada Infrastructure Bank
Ashish Thomas, Investment Director, Infrastructure, IFM
New York: This program contains 1.0 Areas of Professional Practice Credit.
Ontario: This program is eligible for up to 1.0 Substantive hour.
Other session in this series:
- How great companies deliver both purpose and profit
- Including the “I” in ESG
- Investing in low carbon energy
- Managing ESG disputes
- Managing uncertainty in climate change: remarks and Q&A on the OSFI discussion paper
- The role of shareholders, directors and management in setting ESG priorities
- Executing ESG priorities
- The growing importance of ESG in M&A transactions
- Navigating ESG disclosure standards
- Investing and ESG: Fiduciary and other considerations for Canadian pension plans
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