Fossil Futures and the Canada Pension Plan

How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed energy transition away from fossil fuels. This report asks if the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing with the 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global average temperature rise in mind as outlined in the Paris Agreement and finds that it is not. 

Read the report. 

This is part of the Corporate Mapping Project, which is jointly led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC & Saskatchewan offices) and the Parkland Institute. This research was supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). 

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