Tag archives: environment

Climate Change and the Need for Sound Corporate Governance

By Adamo Fucile on August 20, 2021 Posted in Securities, Shareholder Activism

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a troubling report, highlighting the irreversible consequences of climate change on humanity. This study is simply adding to the pressures set forth by governments and other entities such as the Task Force on Climate Change-Related Financial Disclosure (TFCD) and BlackRock to hold corporations more responsible … Continue reading

Trends in Environmental Social Governance

By Jaray Zhao (Toronto) on January 18, 2018 Posted in Corporate Governance, Securities

Corporations are facing increasing pressure to offer more transparency and disclosure with respect to their governance practices that promote environmental and social sustainability. This year’s trends in Environment Social Governance (ESG) in the context of Canadian corporate governance indicate that more and more corporations are including ESG as part of their core mandates and that … Continue reading

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices are paving their way into the mainstream

By Peter Charbonneau (Toronto) on November 6, 2017 Posted in Corporate Governance, Securities

As discussed in our earlier blog post, the Kingsdale Advisors’ (Kingsdale) annual Proxy Season Review for 2017 identified ESG trends as one of several issues on the horizon for public companies. Kingsdale noted that heightened scrutiny from investors could translate into a demand for enhanced disclosure on the part of issuers. The three factors that … Continue reading

Key takeaways from the 2016 proxy season in the US

By Denise Gan (Toronto) on July 28, 2016 Posted in Proxy Battles

The EY Centre for Board Matters (EYC) recently published its annual report setting out key takeaways from 2016’s proxy season in the United States. Canadian issuers should take note of the developments in the US as trends south of the border will impact the proxy landscape in Canada. Investor Communications One of the takeaways from … Continue reading

Key takeaways from the first half of 2015

By Guy White on October 14, 2015 Posted in Securities

ISS’ preliminary postseason review for 2015 provides a report on U.S. activism trends in 2015. ISS identifies five key takeaways from the first half of 2015: Proxy access proposals arrived in a big way this season, with almost 120 proposals and average votes in favour of 54.4% (a jump of more than 20 percentage points from … Continue reading