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Taking the temperature on corporate Canada’s climate commitments

Webinar
  • Oct 7, 2025
    11:00-12:00 PM EDT
  • Virtual

Corporate climate disclosures are an important signal of firms’ commitment to environmental sustainability and a necessary condition for investors to allocate capital to climate solutions. To better understand industry trends, ISF researchers have conducted a comprehensive study of sustainability reports by TSX-listed firms.

During this webinar our expert panel helped viewers gain a deeper appreciation of Canadian firms’ progress in making more sophisticated and higher quality climate-related disclosures, and reducing their emissions. We discussed how to overcome the technical, economic and policy factors that are holding us back from the widespread, high-quality reporting investors need. And we talked about how to move from disclosures to action on emissions reductions and scaling up climate capital.

 

Moderator

Yrjö Koskinen

Director of Research, Institute for Sustainable Finance

Yrjö Koskinen is Director of Research at the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Smith School of Business, Queen's University and BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Helsinki and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD. He currently serves as the Chair of the steering committee for the Canadian Sustainable Finance Network, which was founded by ISF. Prior to his academic career, he worked as an investment manager, financial journalist, and economist and head of the Securities Markets Office at the Bank of Finland.

Panel Discussion

Ariane Bourassa

Head, Sustainability and ESG Strategy, TMX Group

Ariane Bourassa leads corporate sustainability for TMX Group, who owns and operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange. Her work focuses on integrating ESG and climate considerations to the overall enterprise strategy, while supporting publicly-listed companies and other market participants in their sustainability journey. Prior to this, Ariane worked as a public policy professional lending her advocacy skills to the finance, construction and energy sectors.

Sandra Kesseler

VP of ESG Integration and Reporting, Loblaw Companies Limited

Sandy Kesseler is the VP of ESG Integration and Reporting at Loblaw Companies Limited with a mandate to support robust, assurance ready ESG disclosures for future integration into financial statements. Starting her career in external auditing at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she earned her CPA, CA designation, Sandy joined Loblaw in 2008. Over her tenure, she advanced through diverse roles spanning internal audit, internal controls compliance, and enterprise risk management, also notably establishing the Enterprise Regulatory Compliance function and the Enterprise Crisis Response Program.

Sean Cleary

Professor of Finance, Smith School of Business, Queen's University

Dr. Sean Cleary is a Professor of Finance at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. He was the founding Chair of the Institute for Sustainable Finance based at Smith, and is a member of Canada’s 2023 Clean50.