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Shawn McCarthy is a senior counsel at Sussex Strategy and a former national business reporter covering global energy for The Globe and Mail. He's also the past president of the World Press Freedom Canada, a volunteer advocacy group based in Ottawa.

Finance Canada ragging puck on crucial policies needed to drive clean-energy transition

  • Climate risk disclosures and voluntary commitments are good but won't help foster change in business-as-usual banking and investment. Chrystia Freeland could spur the action
Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | October 25, 2023
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland at the CARICOM-Canada Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 18, 2023. Finance Canada is seen as a laggard in its effort to bolster sustainable finance in order to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and incentivize future-friendly investment, writes Shawn McCarthy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Finance Canada ragging puck on crucial policies needed to drive clean-energy transition

Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | October 25, 2023
  • Climate risk disclosures and voluntary commitments are good but won't help foster change in business-as-usual banking and investment. Chrystia Freeland could spur the action

Finance Canada ragging puck on crucial policies needed to drive clean-energy transition

Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | October 25, 2023
  • Climate risk disclosures and voluntary commitments are good but won't help foster change in business-as-usual banking and investment. Chrystia Freeland could spur the action
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland at the CARICOM-Canada Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 18, 2023. Finance Canada is seen as a laggard in its effort to bolster sustainable finance in order to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and incentivize future-friendly investment, writes Shawn McCarthy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

We need to live up to our climate commitments, now

  • Now is not the time to retreat. Or to think we can fully 'adapt' to the extreme ravages of climate change. Or to think that we
Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | July 17, 2023
Environment Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill. Deadly heat waves and other extreme weather events are already upon us. The adverse impacts will only grow in terms of economic activity, human health, and mortality, as well as its deleterious effects on the species that share the planet with us. Canada has to do much more. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

We need to live up to our climate commitments, now

Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | July 17, 2023
  • Now is not the time to retreat. Or to think we can fully 'adapt' to the extreme ravages of climate change. Or to think that we

We need to live up to our climate commitments, now

Opinion | BY SHAWN MCCARTHY | July 17, 2023
  • Now is not the time to retreat. Or to think we can fully 'adapt' to the extreme ravages of climate change. Or to think that we
Environment Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill. Deadly heat waves and other extreme weather events are already upon us. The adverse impacts will only grow in terms of economic activity, human health, and mortality, as well as its deleterious effects on the species that share the planet with us. Canada has to do much more. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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