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Caisse to sell off remaining oil assets in 2022

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Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec will divest all its oil investments in 2022 as part of the pension’s plan to cut its carbon footprint in half by 2030 and set up a $10-billion fund to decarbonize other high-emitting industrial sectors.

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Sustainable assets are becoming a hot market and valuations are “through the roof,” according to Canada’s second-largest pension fund’s CEO. It’s a sign investors can help businesses that have yet to transition to a green economy pursue ESG standards.

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HSBC is bringing a suite of sustainable finance tools to Canada, which the bank says will help small and medium businesses meet increasing expectations around environmental commitments. Larger companies are evaluating their sustainability performance to meet their own green goals.

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The owners of Vancouver’s Bentall Centre, one of the city’s most iconic office complexes, have submitted plans to the city to build Burrard Exchange, a new 450,000-square-foot, 16-storey hybrid mass timber office and retail development at the site.

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TELUS Smart Building has partnered with Calgary-based real estate developer and award-winning investment company, Arlington Street Investments, to bring smart building technology to a Calgary retail and residential development.

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Starbucks is widening its embrace of circular practices and healthful interiors by expanding its Greener Stores internationally and open sourcing the framework’s underlying tools for other retailers to replicate. Starbucks is opening its first international Greener Store in Shanghai.

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Summit Industrial Income REIT has entered into a $75 million green unsecured development credit facility to finance industrial property developments. The Green Development Line is the first labelled Green Loan of its kind in Canada, arranged by a Canadian chartered bank.

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To source comprehensive sets of current and historical environmental records, environmental consultants in Toronto turn to ERIS, Environmental Risk Information Services, a source of historical property information in commercial real estate for North America.

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Most of the world’s nations promised to reduce their carbon emissions via the Paris Agreement. But nobody has done much. It’s hard when you have economies based on digging up fossil fuels and then manufacturing stuff that runs on them.

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Vancouver-based Loop Energy, developer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, has hired Wendy Bach as general counsel and corporate secretary. Bach began her career as an attorney focusing on corporate transactions primarily in the oil and gas sector.

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Linda Coady, executive director of the Pembina Institute, was named to the Research Advisory Council of Queen’s University’s Institute for Sustainable Finance. The council will ensure the ISF’s research prioritizes critical sustainable finance issues affecting Canadian and global business.

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Two things become clear when talking with the extraordinary women in Canada who are guiding the transition to clean energy – their sense of urgency and their unwillingness to leave anyone behind.

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Officials from manufacturing, mining, green groups, academia and organized labour have formed an alliance to speed up development of zero-emission vehicles within Canada in a push to meet a federal target for all new light-duty vehicles to be electric by 2035.

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As automakers switch to electric vehicles (EVs), what happens to batteries at the end of a car’s life? Companies are currently trying to find ways to use dead batteries so they do not end up in landfills.

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Each year, at least eight million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean, the equivalent of dumping one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. Unless we dramatically reduce our plastic consumption, researchers believe that the amount of plastic flowing into our oceans will nearly triple by 2040, to 29 million metric tons per year.

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Students at the University of Toronto threw plastic bottles with GPS trackers into Lake Ontario to track trash that ends up in the lake. The students aimed to determine where the trash originated from and where it accumulates.

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The production of steel, cement and ammonia together emit about one-fifth of all human-caused CO2. Technologies are emerging that promise to decarbonize these problem industries, but analysts warn that big challenges remain before the processes can be cleaned up.

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Smart energy companies GridPoint and Leap are developing virtual power plants which will make businesses’ electricity consumption more efficient and reduce utility bills. The announcement comes on the heels of Stem, Inc.’s plans to construct VPPs across South America.

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The wildfire in White Rock Lake, British Columbia, that started on August 2 is now estimated to have caused $77 million in insured damage, according to initial estimates from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ).

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The June heat wave was the most deadly weather event in Canadian history, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. It is also estimated to be a once-in-a-thousand-years event, made 150 times more likely due to human-caused climate change.

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