John Uhren

MD Sustainable Finance

Grant MacFarlane

Vice President

Valerie Presolly

Vancity

Angie Lamarsh

HSBC

James Desjardins

BMO

Ravinder Gill

RBC

Kevin Hall

Mitsubishi Capital Canada

Reynir Atlason

Creditinfo

Ryan Riordan

Institute for Sustainable Finance

Bryan Watson

Venbridge

Robin Edger

KPMG

Erin Gillis

CIBC

David Luba

tentree

Allison Van Rooijen

Meridian Credit Union

Jonathan Laski

PWC

Stephen Uwazota

Scotiabank

Sanders Lazier

Carbonhound

Matt Fabian

TransUnion

Matthew Ayearst

CGI

Alex Todorovic

Arbor

Alex Kotsopoulos

RSM

Lee Schumacher

Equifax

Israel Martinez

Spring Financial

Darren Thomas

Industry Standards, Government of Alberta

Blake Dumelie

Nesto

Vishal Gulati

Bloom Finance

Graeme Auchincloss

CWB Financial Group

Rob Stansfield

Meridian Credit Union

Naeem Siddiqi

SAS

Sunil Idicula

RBCx

Akin Pandit

Tangentia

Karim Nanji

Marble Financial

Cécile Branco

Simons

Hayden Hood

Assiniboine Credit Union

Christopher Bisson

Value Connect Inc.

Moe Danis

Juno Financial

Daniel Durocher

Flex-Cap Inc.

Anisa Lancione

Extend Financial

Laura Martin

Matrix Mortgage Global

Jonathan Fleisher

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Serge Sigouin

Alterfina

Margaret Adekunle

City Lending Centers

Katerina Kindyni

Ernst & Young

Cheryl Woodburn

Provenir

Christopher Alam

Gowling WLG

Gary Schwartz

President & CEO

The Sustainable Finance Roundtable mission is to collaboratively discuss a framework that would provide emissions measurement and reporting structures in the lending sector. The group will explore scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions measurement and reporting strategies.  *

Members of the roundtable will meet on a regular basis to focus on primarily 3 activities:

  • Information sharing
  • Strategy collaboration
  • Sector leadership

Members will include both SMB, consumer and automotive lenders as well as the wider ecosystem of vendors supporting the business of lending in Canada. 

Specifically, the goal of the roundtable will be to understand, develop, and execute on strategies around the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standards for the Financial Industry (PCAF), exploring how current qualitative and proxy data can be replaced by quantitative factual data, outlining emission-intensive hotspots in the lending industry.

How can we change borrower behaviour in the consumer and commercial sector in Canada. Real-time, data-driven visibility into emissions impact of a purchase is key to smart decisioning. As Canada continues to develop its emissions reporting mandates, the Sustainability Roundtable will focus on moving towards measurable actions that not only drive environmental change, but advance the business goals of participating companies.

Together, we will collaborate on developing clear and long term strategies as leaders within the Sustainable Finance sector providing thought leadership for lending in Canada.

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  • Scope 1: Direct GHG emissions occurring from sources that are controlled or owned by an organization.
  • Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions associated with the purchase of electricity, steam, heat, or cooling.
  • Scope 3: GHG emissions resulting from activities and/or assets not owned or controlled by the reporting organization, such as its suppliers and vendors throughout its value chain.

Please note: It is important that CLA members do not engage, under the auspices of the CLA, in coordinated behaviors or practices that restrict competition or target competitors who are not members of the CLA. It is critical that CLA staff and CLA members abide by these guidelines which are designed to avoid not only actual wrongdoing but also the appearance of wrongdoing. To that effect, CLA members should generally refrain from sharing with each other any confidential sensitive commercial information such as pricing, capacity, expansion, business plans etc. Should a member have any questions or concerns, please contact Dean Velentzas, Head of Policy.