Carbon Disclosure Project—Canada 200 Summary for Investors

Climate change is rapidly becoming a major strategic and operational issue for companies and institutional investors. When assessing companies for their portfolios, investors are shifting their focus to public company disclosure of climate change related risks, opportunities, and strategies. In addition, many investors are evaluating the opportunities related to clean technologies, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and emissions-trading schemes.

The Carbon Disclosure Project represents an efficient process whereby a large number of institutional investors collectively sign a single global request for disclosure of information on climate risk. This briefing looks at investor response to climate change risk and highlights the key results from the Carbon Disclosure Project Report 2008.