The role of shareholders, directors and management in setting ESG priorities
Join us as we explore the latest thinking on ESG factors with leaders in the field, bringing together Torys lawyers from across practice areas as well as external guest speakers. We will discuss current developments in organizational governance, new strategies emerging around ESG investment, sector-specific trends and more.
Join us as we explore the latest thinking on ESG factors with leaders in the field, bringing together Torys lawyers from across practice areas as well as external guest speakers. We will discuss current developments in organizational governance, new strategies emerging around ESG investment, sector-specific trends and more.
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EDT presentation
8:45 a.m. EDT webinar opens
Guest speaker: Michelle Edkins, Managing Director, BlackRock Investment Stewardship
Simon Fish, Special Advisor to the CEO, ESG, BMO Financial Group
Kathleen Taylor, Chair of the Board, RBC
New York: This program contains 1.0 Areas of Professional Practice Credit.
Ontario: This program is eligible for up to 1.0 Substantive hour.
Other session in this series:
- How great companies deliver both purpose and profit
- Including the “I” in ESG
- Investing in low carbon energy
- Managing ESG disputes
- Managing uncertainty in climate change: remarks and Q&A on the OSFI discussion paper
- The role of shareholders, directors and management in setting ESG priorities
- Executing ESG priorities
- The growing importance of ESG in M&A transactions
- Navigating ESG disclosure standards
- Investing and ESG: Fiduciary and other considerations for Canadian pension plans
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