Q&A: How will Canada define what a 'green' investment is?

Why It Matters

On Oct.9, Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the next steps toward Canada’s long-awaited green taxonomy. Work has stalled since 2022 because of fundamental differences in identifying transition investments. Distinguishing between green, transition, and brown investments is critical to directing more money toward socio-ecological transition. 

Q&A: Canada needs to triple its climate financing for other countries, climate NGOs say

Why It Matters

Canada’s international financial contribution of $5.3 billion to combat climate change falls short of its fair share in quantity and quality according to experts. Tripling the money, disbursed in grants and not loans, and prioritizing adaptation is needed.

In conversation with Mansib Rahman, co-founder and CEO of Radish

Why It Matters

Montreal’s Radish plans to be the first co-op in the world to issue shares. Those shares would not guarantee voting rights, only economic rights. Co-op members would keep all the influence. Will it work? This conversation concerns financial innovation, finance’s role in hyper-local ventures, investors’ extra-financial motivations, and the risk of mixing money and the common good.