Canadian Capital Markets and Sustainability: Issues, Challenges and opportunities
Canadian Capital Markets and Sustainability: Issues, Challenges and opportunities
Description
Sustainability is somewhat of a new frontier for the capital markets, where the risks are high, the responsibilities great and the rewards, potentially enormous. There are now growing opportunities for capital market participants to participate and contribute to sustainable development through lending, insurance and investment activities and through developing benchmarks, indices, standards and reporting regimes. The definition used for "Sustainability" refers to business strategies and processes that add economic, environmental and social value to shareholders, employees and society.