Shaping the Future of Sustainable Finance: Institute for Sustainable Finance Launch 2019 | TFI Toronto Finance International | 19 November 2019 | Smith Toronto Smith School of Business at Queen's University, Simcoe Place, 200 Front St W #3020, Toronto, ON M5V 3K2, Canada

Shaping the Future of Sustainable Finance: Institute for Sustainable Finance Launch
Join us for the launch of the Institute for Sustainable Finance based at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. The ISF is the first-ever cross-cutting and collaborative hub in Canada that brings together academia, the private sector and government with the singular focus of increasing the country’s sustainable finance capacity.

We are at a pivotal moment in Canada where we can both protect our markets and investments from risk while refocusing them to tap into new and unprecedented opportunities.

The new Institute for Sustainable Finance is seizing on this critical opportunity and leading the way by developing world-class sustainable finance expertise to shape the financial system for Canada’s future.

The transition to a low-carbon economy is already underway. Global players are currently leading on the way in sustainable finance, defining the tools and writing the rules that will determine how capital flows. Canada has the means and the opportunity to be an innovation shaper – not taker – to inform these decisions to benefit our economy.

The ISF will fill the gap of relevant data, expertise and business-oriented solutions for sustainable finance. By aligning financial knowledge and tools with climate change imperatives, we will foster Canada’s leadership in the shift to a low-carbon global economy.

2019 Speakers

Dr. Sean Cleary
Executive Director for the Institute for Sustainable Finance and the BMO Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business

Sue Lemon
CEO, CFA Toronto

Jennifer Reynolds
President & CEO, Toronto Finance International

Dustyn Lanz
CEO, Responsible Investment Association