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Karine Peloffy | It’s time the financial sector invested in our health and well-being | 1 May 2024 at 13:30 EDT | CACOR Zoom
May 1 @ 13:30 - 17:00 EDT
Speaker: Karine Peloffy
Topic: It’s time the financial sector invested in our health and well-being
Time: May 1, 2024 at 13:30 Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
With Canada’s financial institutions being amongst the main fossil fuel supporters in the world, setting rules to require banks and pensions to align with climate action remains a key missing piece of Canada’s climate plan. The Climate-Aligned Finance Act drafted based on expert consultations and introduced two years ago by independent Senator Rosa Galvez would fix this gap.
Bio:
Karine joined Ecojustice in March 2024 as project lead for our sustainable finance work. She authored the groundbreaking Climate-Aligned Finance Act introduced in 2022 and drafted based on expert consultations and was a strong advocate for the passage of the Canada Net Zero Accountability Act.
A member of the Quebec Bar since 2007, she was the director of the Quebec Center for Environmental Law (CQDE) from 2014 to 2018. She was deeply involved in the injunction that protected beluga whales against an oil terminal in the St-Lawrence.
She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University’s transsystemic law program. She contributed to a diversity of environmental and social justice projects around the world and in Canada.