Sustainability Leaders

Zero-carbon construction is not just important for greenhouse gas emissions reduction—it can also be a smart investment for asset owners. Angela Adduci, Senior Advisor, Policy, BMO Climate Institute, sat down with Kathleen Beaumont, Director, Impact & ESG, Forum Asset Management, and Paul Morassutti, Chairman, CBRE Limited, to discuss new insights on the cost and asset values of zero-carbon reside...

We all know the auto industry is headed toward electrification and alternative energy inputs. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and dealers have a lot to consider regarding how they will decarbonize and what the future of the dealership will look like. OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer.

This episode from BMO's IN Tune podcast focuses on how the AI/data center build out is contributing to a new era of electricity demand.

In this episode of Sustainability Leaders, George Sutherland, Senior Advisor with the BMO Climate Institute sat down with John Simpson, Chairman, Owner, and CEO of the CANA Group of Companies and Founder of The Simpson Centre, and Guillaume Lhermie, Director of The Simpson Centre and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary to discuss the trends and opportunities in sustainable food system...

In this episode of Sustainability Leaders, our experts discuss the implementation efforts that enable progress towards the dairy industry for the 2050 environmental goals.

In this episode of Sustainability Leaders, Melissa Fifield sat down with Mil Niepold, Founder and President of The Mara Partners (TMP), a strategic advisory company working at the intersection of equity and the environment.

In part 2, Alma Cortes Selva, Senior Advisor at the BMO Climate Institute, speaks with Jim Winn from Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance about his experience introducing sustainable practices such as cover crop usage and seeing the impact on yield and net return per acre.

Alma Cortes Selva, Senior Advisor at the BMO Climate Institute, speaks with Lauren Brey about her work at Farmers for Sustainable Food and the experience of Paul Cornette from Peninsula Pride Farms of shifting to sustainable farming practices.

This episode dives into the benefits of energy-efficient upgrades to help homeowners make informed choices that can reduce energy costs, improve comfort and contribute to a healthier environment. Host: Ashish Arora, Regional Vice President of Specialized Sales Group, BMO. Guests: Paul Doucet, Principal Architect at Sustainable; Sarah Grant, Certified Energy Auditor, and Founder of Goldfinch Energy...

In this episode of Sustainability Leaders, James Burrow, sat down with Aaron Berg, head of the Building Retrofits Initiative at Canada Infrastructure Bank; Martha Campbell, Principal of Carbon Free buildings at the Rocky Mountain Institutes; and Matt Golden, CEO of Recurve, an energy efficiency services company located in California to discuss accelerating deep energy retrofits to buildings in Can...

In this episode from BMO’s IN Tune Podcast, host Camilla Sutton is joined by Kelly Bania, Joel Jackson, Doug Morrow and Andrew Strelzik to discuss the takeaways from BMO’s 19th Annual Farm to Market Conference and stretches across the food and agriculture value chain.

How can climate change impact financial markets and the regulatory landscape, and how might investors be able to integrate climate risks and opportunities into their capital allocation strategies? Listen to our latest episode. 

Last year, BMO and Imperial Oil donated money to the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering to support Schulich Racing (F1), Off-Road (Baja) and Renewable Fuel teams. Learn more in this episode.

Listen to the key takeaways from a panel Rachel Walsh, Environmental Commodities Strategist at BMO Capital Markets joined, titled: “America’s Carbon Markets: The Only Way is up. Or is it?”

In this Sustainability Leaders episode, Alma Cortés Selva is joined by Doug Porter and Dr. José Nuño-Ledesma, Assistant Professor of Food Industry Economics and Management at the University of Guelph, to discuss Canada’s food inflation from both a domestic and international standpoint.

In the U.S., inflation has been persistent and it’s one of the trickiest indexes to measure from an economic standpoint, according to Erik Johnson, Senior Economist and Vice President, BMO Economics. This episode touches on U.S. inflation, housing costs, and extreme weather events.

GRID Alternatives is a national leader in helping economic and environmental justice communities nationwide get clean, affordable solar power and solar jobs, and our energy access work is lighting up off-grid communities across the globe.

The more companies take climate action, the less confident they seem to be about their actions having an impact on what’s causing the climate to change. Learn how something called carbon accounting can help.

Learn why a BloombergNEF analyst is not so worried about the slowdown in global electric vehicle (EV) sales.

The availability of insurance can play a critical role in the deploying of capital toward climate action. BMO spoke with Natalia Moudrak, Senior Director, North America Climate, Aon.

BMO spoke with Elizabeth Bellis Wolfe, Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office (LPO), one of the highest-profile programs financing new energy technology is the U.S.

Learn about the role of satellites in measuring, managing, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and how this technology is being operationalized by the private sector and governments. 

Jigar Shah, Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy, shares what younger clean energy companies should understand about LPO and how equity investors view its diligence process.

Magali Gable, Director of Sustainable Finance, sat down with Elizabeth Wallace and Alex Wood, Assistant Deputy Minister, Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, to discuss the province of Ontario's new sustainable bond framework.

The energy transition has brought transformation to the mining sector. Colin Hamilton, Commodities Analyst, BMO Capital Markets, sat down with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)’s President and CEO Rohitesh Dhawan to discuss what the industry needs to do to embrace nature-positive mining.