Sustainability Leaders

By the end of June, Canada was already experiencing its worst wildfire season in recorded history. In an effort to address the impact these events are having on the country, George Sutherland, Senior Advisor, Climate Change & Sustainability with the BMO Climate Institute, sat down with Mike Flannigan, the B.C. Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science...

Jonathan Hackett, Former Head of Sustainable Finance, BMO Capital Markets, is joined by Roger Spitz, an international bestselling author, President of Techistential, and founding Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute. The two experts discuss the future of sustainability and the role of companies, investors and technology. Listen now!

Michael Torrance, BMO Chief Sustainability Officer, participated in a panel at the IBM THINK conference to discuss sustainability and the role financial institutions play in creating a sustainable future. 

Chief Executive Officer at BMO Financial Group, Darryl White, addresses the audience at the US-Canada Summit, hosted by BMO and the geopolitical risk advisory firm Eurasia Group, to highlight the changing dynamics of trade, food, energy security, the environment (and more) in North America as the world order experiences its greatest shifts in decades. 

In this episode from BMO Equity Research IN Tune Podcast, we are joined by BMO Capital Markets’ CEO & Group Head Dan Barclay as he moderates a discussion on the takeaways from BMO’s 18th Annual Farm to Market Conference across the food and agriculture value chain.

This episode focuses on cybersecurity and how it is now regarded as a critical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concern.

With Earth Day upon us, May Lim sat down with David Luba, co-founder of veritree, a company that connects businesses with verified tree-planting projects to help restore our planet.

The argument being put forward is that SVB management was overly concerned with DE&I, ESG policies and sustainable finance, all of which distracted them from focusing on their core mission. Doug Morrow and his team disagree with this assessment. Here’s why.

In this episode of Sustainability Leaders, Susan McGeachie is joined by Remi Piet, Co-Founder & Senior Partner at Embellie Advisory, to discuss everything from prevailing concern over accelerating geopolitical competition for access to critical minerals to the role of climate justice in the energy transition.

Dan Barclay, Chief Executive Officer of BMO Capital Markets, sat down with Rohitesh on the ground at our 32nd Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference to discuss the shift in demand to critical minerals and more. Listen now.

In this special episode from BMO’s IN Tune Podcast, we are joined by Doug Morrow, ESG Analyst; Rachel Walsh, Carbon Innovation Analyst; Saj Shapiro, Head, BMO Radicle; and Chelsea Bryant, Managing Director, Trading, BMO Radicle, who discuss the interplay between BMO Radicle, energy transition, and the world of carbon credits.

Chief Executive Officer at BMO Financial Group, Darryl White, participated in a great panel discussion at the World Economic Forum to discuss the economic implications of a rapidly-aging society, including why life stages like education milestones, developing your career, finding a home, or planning for retirement are changing.

Michael Torrance is joined by Nathalie Borgeaud, Lead, Financial Markets Stakeholder Engagement of Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), to discuss how the TNFD has created a framework for organizations to shift away from nature-negative outcomes and move toward nature-positive outcomes.

The economics of renewable natural gas, or RNG, and the evolution of carbon markets have generated serious interest in the byproducts of animal agriculture. It's creating opportunities for livestock producers to expand their operations, diversify their revenue and improve their own carbon footprints. BMO recently moderated a panel of agriculture industry and financing experts to discuss carbon mar...

Today, we have a special episode from BMO's IN Tune podcast that aired on October 28, 2022. Camilla Sutton, MD in our BMO equity research group is joined by Doug Morrow, BMO’s Director of ESG Strategy, to go over the key findings from the department’s recent launch of ESG coverage for the base metals and diversified mining industries. Let’s take a listen.

« Le Canada et ses partenaires nordaméricains peuvent se démarquer au 21e siècle, mais seulement si nous pouvons clairement déterminer nos forces, concentrer nos efforts sur les avantages naturels les plus stratégiques que nous avons et adopter une ambition commune quant à ce qui peut être accompli. » Darryl White, Chef de la direction, BMO Groupe financier.

Susan McGeachie, Head of the BMO Climate Institute, is joined by Dan Wicklum, President and CEO of The Transition Accelerator, a pan-Canadian charity that creates positive, transformational system changes that solve societal challenges while moving Canada down viable pathways to reach net zero by 2050, to discuss how it is supporting Canada's road to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

In the U.S., employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, have long been an effective tool for both business owners and employees. According to the National Center for Employee Ownership, there are approximately 7,000 ESOPs in the U.S. that hold about $1.7 trillion in assets, covering nearly 14 million workers. Businesses in Canada, however, have not been able to take full advantage of the employee-o...

In this special episode from BMO’s IN Tune Podcast, host Camilla Sutton is joined by Doug Morrow and Juan Sanabria to discuss the key findings from their recent note on climate change impacts on US real estate companies.

Learn about the implications of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) when it comes to the EV transition and the importance of building out robust supply chains. Katie Shuter, Climate Change and Sustainability Analyst with the BMO Climate Institute is joined by Nathan Niese, BCG Global Lead for Electric Vehicles, to discuss this evolving topic.

Between rising global tensions and economic uncertainty, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) may be a more subdued affair, but investors have become acutely aware of the financial impacts of climate change and the importance of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. Listen to our BMO experts as they discuss what to expect from this year’s UN Climate Change Conference.

Aaron Engen, Vice Chair of Investment & Corporate Banking and Co-Head of the Energy Transition group at BMO Capital Markets, sat down with Howard Learner, Executive Director of Environmental Law & Policy Center, at the inaugural Transition Think Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this month, where leaders from the private and public spheres came together to discuss climate change solutions. Aaron...

The growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market is critical to the transition toward net zero. BMO Chief Sustainability Officer Michael Torrance is joined by BMO Economist Erik Johnson, who focuses on the transformation of the auto sector and tracking the evolution of demand and supply of the zero-emissions vehicle.

In this special episode from the BMO IN Tune Podcast, our BMO experts discuss the Voluntary Carbon markets, including why they are important, what they are used for, how pricing works, and everything else that is critical for investors to understand.

In this episode, our experts discuss renewable energy needs across Canada and opportunities to increase Indigenous participation in developments.