The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted rules to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings. The final rules reflect the Commission’s efforts to respond to investors’ demand for more consistent, comparable, and reliable information about the financial effects of climate-related risks on a registrant’s operations and how it manages those risks while balancing concerns about mitigating the associated costs of the rules.
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On February 22, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued a news release providing updated guidance to reporting issuers regarding virtual shareholder meetings. This new guidance is a follow-up to the initial guidance that the CSA released in February of 2022 when many issuers had adopted virtual meeting practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Companies are getting more sophisticated about how they share investor-focused information
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Dentons Canada’s 2024 Proxy Season Guide sets out
legislative, regulatory and advisory developments
pertaining to corporate governance and annual
disclosure matters which will impact Canadian public
companies with respect to their proxy-related materials
and other annual disclosure.
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It has been well over two years since the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) proposed draft National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters. At that time, institutional investors with $21-trillion in assets under management urged the CSA to move swiftly to finalize NI 51-107 if Canada is to obtain its share of capital flows to sustainable finance.
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