Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic...

While many business leaders speak of the economic case for environmental and social responsibility, and "sustainability" has gained broad acceptance as a crucial goal for any civilised society, many business managers and corporate regulators continue to believe that dealing with climate change...

Humans have become the Earth’s dominant animals, yet we remain perched on the precipice of an anthropogenic collapse in planetary ecological systems. For lawyers, this raises a question: why hasn’t environmental law succeeded? The law’s limitations in this area cannot satisfactorily be...

This Article examines the history of Canadian environmental law in order to explain why it has become a laggard in both legal reform and environmental performance. Canadian environmental law has long been of interest to scholars worldwide, yet its record is often poorly understood. The Article...

Canvassing practices in many countries, this chapter analyses the relationships between Indigenous peoples and environmental governance. It examines the environmental values and practices of Indigenous peoples, primarily in order to assess their implications for the Indigenous stake in...

This article investigates the theory of universal investors and their ability to be agents for socially responsible investing (SRI), with particular regard to the Canadian context. The influential theory depicts large financial institutions as motivated to reduce the social and environmental...

Debates about the legality of socially responsible investing (SRI) with regard to institutional investors' fiduciary duties have focused on whether SRI is “financially material” to investment performance. This article examines the less considered question of whether SRI may also be legally...

An important trend in global financial markets is the growth of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), some of which purport to invest ethically by considering the social and environmental impact of their financing. Yet, like private investors, these funds primarily view themselves as financial...

In socially responsible investment terms, Germany is a contradiction. The country is considered by many as one of the pioneers of post‐war environmentalism and social reform. Yet, German financial institutions are amongst the European laggards in adopting environmentally and socially informed...