By Melissa Harris, Senior Director at Delphi    Amid record-breaking temperatures and one of the worst forest-fire seasons to date, leaders from government, industry and civil society gathered in New York for Climate Week this month with the hope of increasing ambition and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.   Experts from GLOBE Series and Delphi participated […]

The impacts of climate change are everywhere – we’re all sick of reading the headlines about the wildfires and seeing communities lose their homes and businesses. The good news is that you can build a climate-smart business and not only set up your organization for success but be part of the solution to climate change. […]

By Delphi’s Adam Schwarz, Senior Consultant, Sustainability and ESG Reporting, and Dave Photiadis, Senior Director For the past 20 years, the world of sustainability reporting and ESG disclosure has been a wild west. There are hundreds of reporting standards, a litany of methodologies, and a distinct lack of regulation. At the same time, stakeholder interest […]

By Elizabeth Arif, Senior Analyst, Hayley MacVicar, Consultant, and Adam Schwarz, Senior Consultant, Sustainability and ESG Reporting Materiality is a hot topic across all industries right now. No matter where you are in your sustainability journey, a materiality assessment will help you prioritize the sustainability issues and opportunities that are most important to your stakeholders […]

By: The Delphi Group’s Kristine O’Rielly, Director, Innovation and Cleantech, and Sarah Todgham, Policy Consultant, Climate Change    Prior to this week’s federal budget announcement, Canada had been under increasing pressure to invest in the clean economy. For example, the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), announced last August, signalled $369 billion in climate spending. Other jurisdictions, […]

By The Delphi Group’s Sarah Todgham, Policy Consultant, Climate Change, and Matt Beck, Senior Director, Carbon Management & Sustainability We’re over a month into 2023 and the clock is ticking when it comes to achieving Canada’s net-zero emissions target by 2050. Moving from commitment to action is hard but necessary to secure a competitive edge […]

Now that we’re almost a month in to 2023, we asked the leaders of our organizations – Biboye Aganaba, Executive Director of Leading Change; Dr. Carol-Ann Brown, President of Delphi; Ted Ferguson, Chief Sustainability Officer of our group and Managing Director of CBSR; Elizabeth Shirt, President of GLOBE Series; and Mike Gerbis, CEO of our […]

By Ted Ferguson, Chief Sustainability Officer   With so much talk in Canada about the oil and gas sector, I wanted to shed light on another critically important Canadian energy industry: the clean energy developers and utility companies headquartered in Canada and operating globally. These companies represent a sustainable energy future for Canada and the […]

By Amber Nicholson, Director, Corporate Sustainability  Following the lukewarm results of COP27, the global alarm has been sounded as the world gets closer to surpassing the 1.5-degree target needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Year after year, more commitments are made to lower emissions, conserve resources, reduce waste, clean up air and […]