Soon the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) will release its work on what’s called a “transition taxonomy,” essentially a definition-setting exercise for what kind of projects should qualify for transition financing, a branch of “sustainable” financing. The stakes are high. Finance is under increasing pressure to move money away from activities causing the climate crisis and towards those…

Canada’s banks are coming under increasing pressure for their fossil fuel financing, among the highest in the world. But recently they joined Mark Carney’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) – en masse – so that’s fixed, right? Well not exactly. Or at all, really. Leaked emails show that advisors to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) of which NZBA…