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A federal court refused to strike down a climate lawsuit brought against the Carney government by Canadian youth.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is making a risky bet on gas to power the build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence (AI). By supplying the insatiable demand for energy ass...

An exploration of key trends and evolutions in global climate change litigation from the calendar year 2025, plus important new developments through to May 2026.

Shift’s August 2026 report, Indigenous Rights and Canadian Pension Funds, finds that none of Canada’s large pension managers have publicly disclosed investment policies ensuring alignment with Indigen...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments, or CPPIB) announced an additional climate disclosure earlier this month. This is a small but welcome improvement in transparency that appear...

Recent analysis found that global GDP per capita would be more than 25 per cent higher today had no warming occurred

Shift of funds from a US asset manager to a European one highlights the divergence

As temperatures continue their relentless rise, most investors are still ignoring the impact of a hotter planet on asset values, according to Henry Fernandez, the chief executive of MSCI Inc.

Institutional investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios if continually rising temperatures trigger what JPMorgan Chase & Co. is calling “climate black swan risks.”

As more and more Canadians are experiencing the worsening impacts of climate change first-hand, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) decided – once again – to showcase how it’s investing o...

Climate-friendly technologies are advancing so quickly contract prices in Ontario have dropped from over $1,100 per megawatt in 2023 to $563 now.

LNG investments are particularly short-sighted for pension funds, which are mandated to invest for the long-term and are distinctly exposed to systemic climate risks.

In this Climate Pension Quarterly, we examine the the risks posed by potential LNG investment and why the pension executives entrusted to manage our retirement savings need to recognize that the fun...

As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...

A growing body of climate lawsuits poses a threat to oil and gas aims of the province and Canada, a new report suggests.

Get ready for a glut of liquefied natural gas.

The next legal battle over LNG may not be about whether a project gets approved but whether governments can use public money to help it move ahead.

Divesting from the oil sector has been a boon for La Caisse’s performance, as the Canadian pension giant says its energy investments have earned billions in value-add compared to the benchmark since t...

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health’s January 2025 report, Gaslighting the Energy Transition, reveals the exposure of Canadian pension funds to significant financial risks through their...

As Canada's largest pension funds grapple with escalating climate-related financial risks, Patrick DeRochie, senior manager at Shift Action argues that Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP)’s new clim...

Canada’s largest pension fund is ‘curious’ to explore new options for investing domestically, CEO says

MONTRÉAL — Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada’s oil industry are figures close to American President Donald Trump who are “taking us for fools” and putting both t...

Imagine you wanted to buy a new car.  Now imagine that you have a choice of two cars that are identical except one of the cars requires you to buy expensive fuel to run it and the other runs on free f...

Your pension fund is facing pressure from the federal government to finance so-called major projects “in the national interest”. Several of these projects include risky new fossil fuel infrastructure ...

The move comes as part of Britain's response to the Iran war, with the conflict triggering the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market.

Apologies to Charles Dickens

When it comes to managing the financial risks of climate change, there appears to be a glaring contradiction at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). On one hand, CPPIB executives have ack...