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Description
Equip yourself with knowledge and strategies to thrive in the evolving ESG landscape and hear from industry leaders as they share their experiences on pressing issues facing organizations today.
Gain Insight Into:
- Where Canadian climate policy stands and where it’s going.
- Tools and resources to track sustainability.
- Ways to effectively manage climate-related risks.
- How to prepare for the implementation of climate-related disclosures.
- Board oversight of ESG and Sustainability issues.
Key Takeaways
This on-demand course includes videos from the 2023 ESG Conference as below:
- The Urgency of Climate Action & Canadian Policy Developments for Climate Finance – Julie Segal, Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence.
- ESG and Sustainability: Accounting for Grand Challenges – Professor Charles H. Cho, Professor of Sustainability.
- How Technology firms are playing a critical role in supporting Canadian businesses to drive progress in ESG reporting – Zlata Huddleston, Partner, IBM Consulting Sustainability.
- ESG Journey in the Finance Function Panel Discussion – Moderators from Ernst & Young LLP and panel of clients.
- Trends in Climate-related Disclosures – Tyson Dyck, Partner, Torys LLP.
- Role of the Board and ESG – Shelley Gilberg, National ESG Markets Leader and Canadian Platforms Leader, PwC Canada.
Who Will Benefit
All CPAs and finance professionals who bear direct or indirect responsibility for contributing to ESG strategy and governance or Sustainability reporting. Examples of professions who may benefit from this course include:
- Financial Statement Preparers
- Finance Managers
- Board Members
- Professionals involved in the preparation of sustainability or integrated reports
- Chief Executive Officers
- Chief Finance Officers
How to Access the Course
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
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Julie Segal works as Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence, where she advances climate-related financial policy and regulation. She previously managed a portfolio of impact investments at the McConnell Foundation. Her career combines sustainable finance and climate advocacy. She’s won national and global awards for her work integrating environmental justice into sustainable finance, including winning First Prize Paper in the Ethics & Trust in Finance Global Prize. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute, sits on the investment advisory committee of The Michaëlle Jean Foundation, and is an Associate at Youth Climate Lab. Julie writes about climate finance in the media, volunteers with various community- and youth-led environmental groups, and advises foundations on strategies for impact investing. Julie completed a Bachelor of Commerce at McGill University. |
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Shelley Gilberg is the National Platforms Leader for PwC Canada, and the Canadian Leader for ESG. She has spent more than 25 years in both industry and in advisory services. She has been a COO, CFO, and a Transformation executive delivering on finance, operations, technology, strategy, and innovation portfolios. In her career in advisory services to clients she has led corporate strategy and transformation in Canada and globally across several industries. |
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Charles H. Cho is Professor of Sustainability Accounting and the Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business. He has worked for KPMG LLP and other public accounting firms for several years in auditing and taxation. His research interests include Social and Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); and Accounting and the Public Interest and has published his work in many leading academic journals. | |
Tyson Dyck is an experienced environmental and climate change lawyer with deep involvement in the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors, Tyson brings strategic acumen, skillful advocacy and technical insight to his work advising clients on their most complex matters. He is a Partner at Torys LLP, an international business law firm known for its sophisticated counsel, best-in-class client service and the most cohesive cross-border team in the market. | |
Jennifer Teoh, CPA, CA, is an Associate Partner and EY’s Ottawa Financial Accounting Advisory Services Leader. She has dedicated over a decade of her career providing finance and accounting advisory to support the CFO agenda in a wide range of organizations and industries. She has also held roles in Finance teams of large organizations overseeing aspects of external financial reporting, accounting policy, forecasting and budgeting, internal controls over financial reporting, performance measurement and corporate governance. | |
Munam Khan, CPA, CA is a Senior Manager in the Financial Accounting Advisory Services practice at EY Toronto. She has over 11 years of professional experience ranging from complex accounting and financial reporting areas under IFRS, US GAAP and ASPE to finance optimization matters, across multiple sectors including financial services, telecommunications, consumer and retail. With a deep reporting background, Munam is leading EY’s ESG disclosure and reporting efforts in the GTA, supporting clients in operationalizing sustainability reporting and integrating it into their finance function. |