Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, whose foresight and guidance are widely recognized for navigating the Canadian economy safely through the 2008 global financial crises, made a momentous speech at a recent gathering of leading insurers organized by Lloyd’s of London. Carney, now the Governor of the Bank of England and […]
Our economic system is broken; it’s unsustainable. John Fullerton, the founder and president of Capital Institute recently explained to a packed auditorium at the Centre for International Governance Innovation that the core assumption of how we generate our prosperity no longer works. Capital Institute is “a collaborative [that is] working […]
Do you want to fall in love renewables utterly and completely, but you’re still not sure if they can live up to their promises? According to Amory Lovins, only the myths hold us back from complete surrender. Watch this reassuring video from the Rocky Mountain Institute to understand that […]
Climate action was prominent on the agenda of the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Presentations by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, UK climate advisor and economist Lord Stern, and former US Vice-President Al Gore highlighted the significance of action on carbon emissions and […]
The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star, create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]
We recognize the dim future of the fossil fuel economy yet we continue to search frantically for new sources of oil. As KAIROS demonstrates in its research paper “Pumped Up: How Canada subsidizes fossil fuels at the expense of green alternatives“, we spend far more money in Canada to […]
Banking on Divestment, a recent article in Alternatives Journal, explains how Canadian university students are demanding that their schools stop supporting fossil fuels. The article illustrates the important ripple effect that divestment from fossil fuels can have. “The dollars are important but the economic impacts extend far beyond this,” says Cameron Fenton […]
In this clip from the documentary Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, which aired on PBS in March 2011, Lester Brown, Founder and Director of the Earth Policy Institute, uses the example of a lily pond to demonstrate the accelerating effect of carbon emissions on our climate. This is a simple, […]
Jason Thistlethwaite talks about our new era of risk disclosure and risk governance for the fossil fuel industry – and the implications for insurance and investing. In this video from CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation), “Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate Change Adaptation Project at the University of Waterloo, joins […]
