Writing in the Globe and Mail, Jim Leech and Sean Cleary of the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University applaud the Canadian Securities Administrators proposal for new rules on climate disclosure for Canadian companies which align with most of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). However, the authors argue…(Read more)
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Blended Finance, Gender Equality and Climate Change
In early November 2020, the Convergence Blended Finance Platform published a Brief entitled How can blended finance address the gendered impacts of climate change? As Senior Associate Andrew Apampa writes, of 63 blended finance transactions at the gender-climate nexus, most have been structured through funds and companies and have focused on clean energy, particularly renewable…(Read more)