Welcome to Fidelity Investment Canada’s 2020 Sustainable Investing Report, in which we explain our engagement and proxy voting process, highlight our investment stewardship activities during the year, and explore the ways in which Covid-19 and climate change are rapidly changing sustainable investing.
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Sustainable Investing Insights
Webcast: Identifying material ESG factors to long-term profitability and investor returns
Jenn-Hui Tan, Global Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investing at Fidelity International, discusses how non-financial risks – such as those related to ESG principles – can have a significant financial impact on a company over time, and which factors matter most in which sectors.
Analyst Survey 2021: Race is on to achieve net zero
European companies are leading the way to net zero, according to our global survey of Fidelity International analysts. But with sustainability continuing to climb the agenda in North America and elsewhere, there is hope that other regions could catch up.
Slashing emissions will fuel green growth for decades
The world needs to slash carbon emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Easy to say, hard to do. It means reversing over 150 years of rising greenhouse gas emissions and reaching net zero targets within 30 years.
Climate solutions: Carbon reduction, not carbon avoidance
Climate change is one of the biggest risks to the global economy and to our way of living. Carbon avoidance is not the answer and investing in lower-emissions sectors provides modest contributions to cutting emissions. Decarbonization is needed for there to be any distinct change in emissions.
This report has been provided by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC (Fidelity) and is for information purposes only. It is comprised of, among other things, examples of sustainable investing activities across Fidelity and FIL Limited (Fidelity International) only, current as at the date of the report. The report may refer to ESG considerations that Fidelity and Fidelity International may take into account as part of their research or investment process, and is not reflective of the approach of any other Fidelity Investments company or sub-adviser, such as Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, FIAM LLC, Geode Capital Management, LLC and State Street Global Advisors Ltd., to ESG research, stewardship and sustainable investing, either specifically or generally.
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