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Consultation Response for National Infrastructure Assessment

Consultation Response for National Infrastructure Assessment

VIA EMAIL June 29, 2021 Infrastructure Canadainfc.info.infc@canada.ca Dear members of the National Infrastructure Assessment team, RE: National Infrastructure Assessment – Consultation Response We appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback on the three priorities identified in Infrastructure Canada’s Engagement Paper on the National Infrastructure Assessment (the “Assessment“). We consider this engagement to be timely and critical to […]

All Hands on Deck as Pensions Tackle Climate Change

All Hands on Deck as Pensions Tackle Climate Change

What are you doing to future-proof your pension? Whether you are running a pension plan, consulting to a pension plan, or putting your retirement savings into a pension plan, you want those funds to be healthy and secure. That means proactively engaging with the significant impacts of climate change on our physical world and our […]

How to Turn Climate Disclosures into Action – Part II

How to Turn Climate Disclosures into Action – Part II A person holding a clipboard with Action Plans written on it

In our previous blog, we outlined, at a high-level, what it means to operationalize the TCFD framework within a company. We illustrated how developing corporate-level TCFD-aptitude can start with asking some pointed questions. The right questions will reveal whether the company’s internal and external stories on climate change match and whether the climate-related disclosures of […]

Nothing Less than a Complete Transformation – the Road to Net-Zero and Climate Transparency

Nothing Less than a Complete Transformation – the Road to Net-Zero and Climate Transparency Data on a peach background

June 16, 2021 For this webinar, Manifest Climate team members, Laura Zizzo, Tyrone Hall, Joy Williams and Pete Richardson, discuss the IEA’s roadmap to Net-Zero. They talk about how the IEA vision fits into the ever-evolving landscape of the global climate response, and how net-zero ambition is helping to drive the push toward mandatory climate-related […]

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission

June 13, 2021 The Honorable Gary Gensler, ChairThe United States Securities and Exchange Commission100 F St, NE Washington, D.C. 20549  VIA EMAIL RE: Public Input on Climate Change Disclosures Dear Chair Gensler and esteemed members of the Securities and Exchange Commission,  Manifest Climate (“Manifest Climate”) welcomes the opportunity to provide comments to the Securities and Exchange […]

Weekly round-up: June 7-11

Weekly round-up: June 7-11 Bank of England, the royal exchange in London

The top five climate risk stories this week 1) Bank of England launches climate stress test The Bank of England (BoE) kicked off its inaugural climate stress test on Tuesday after a lengthy Covid-induced delay, during which the scope and ambition of the exercise have been dramatically scaled back.  Seven bank and 12 insurer participants will subject […]

What Exactly is the TCFD?

What Exactly is the TCFD? Learn about the TCFD, what it does, and how it helps businesses.

If you’re a publicly-traded company, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘TCFD’ mentioned. In this article, we discuss: The TCFD stands for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. It is a framework that organizations can use to publicly disclose the climate-related risks and opportunities to their businesses. More than 4,000 businesses and governments around the […]

Manifest Climate Welcomes G7’s Support of TCFD

Manifest Climate Welcomes G7’s Support of TCFD A laptop with different graphs on it

TORONTO, CANADA; JUNE 7, 2021– Manifest Climate welcomes the G7’s endorsement of mandatory TCFD-aligned financial disclosures. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is the world’s most robust framework for climate-related financial disclosure. TCFD-aligned disclosures offer investors specific, transparent information on organizations’ climate risks and strengthen corporate governance and accountability. They also provide a […]