Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

Climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) is shutting down after concluding advocacy work is insufficient to drive meaningful climate action without regulatory support. In its final...

A new report by Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) for the first time grades federal and provincial financial regulators on their climate risk management efforts, finding in general that they are failing to meet their mandates for system stability in tackling growing climate risk. This is I4PC’s final report, issued at the opening of the Montreal Sustainable Finance Summit, with the organization then winding down.

After five years, we believe investor accountability has reached its limits

Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC), one of Canada’s leading voices on climate risk and accountability, is closing its doors after a five-year run. “When we formed Investors for Paris Compliance we set out to test whether investor pressure could meaningfully enforce the wave of voluntary net zero commitments being made by Canada’s banks, insurers, asset managers, and largest emitters,” the organization writes. “We worked through shareholder proposals, report cards, regulatory complaints, and direct engagement with CEOs and institutional investors.” But despite some limited successes, “the larger picture did not change much,” I4PC concludes. “Canada’s banks remain highly exposed to fossil fuels. Oil and gas companies continue to expand while maintaining implausible net zero narratives. Institutional investors talk about engagement while rarely escalating to real consequences. Regulators, when they act at all, prefer disclosure over intervention.” “We’re proud of our track record,” the six-member I4PC team states [pdf] in a 23-page wrap document. “Pound for pound, we have been incredibly productive. Yet we feel our work generated only incremental results.” That experience showed that investor accountability on its own “is not sufficient to drive the scale or speed of change required. That outcome depends on regulatory, legal, and incentive structures that...

Shareholder advocacy has ‘reached its limits’ in the absence of regulatory and legal action, says Canada’s Investors for Paris Compliance Canadian climate advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance...

I4PC launched in 2021 to test how shareholder activism could help meet climate goals

Climate advocacy group I4PC urges Canadian Securities Administrators to resume working on mandatory climate disclosure rules

Climate advocacy group I4PC urges Canadian Securities Administrators to resume working on mandatory climate disclosure rules

Climate advocacy group I4PC urges Canadian Securities Administrators to resume working on mandatory climate disclosure rules

Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting...

As climate damages soar, threatening Canada’s home insurance system, the question is called: who pays? Last year there were over $9 billion in claims driven by extreme weather in Canada, with much of ...

As climate damages soar, threatening Canada’s home insurance system, the question is called: who pays? Last year there were over $9 billion in claims driven by extreme weather in Canada, with much of ...

Shareholders at Fairfax Financial Holdings (FFH) will again vote on a proposal calling on the company to disclose its financed emissions. Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) just refiled the proposal after being informed verbally that it achieved majority support among subordinate shareholders last year. Unlike with its director votes, Fairfax did not break out this result by vote class in its filings.

Shareholders at Fairfax Financial Holdings (FFH) will again vote on a proposal calling on the company to disclose its financed emissions. Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) just refiled the proposa...