Canadian Proxy Season Briefing
March 4, 2009
RiskMetrics Group's 2009 Canadian Proxy Season Briefing
Agenda
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Time
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Speaker and Topic |
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AM Session: ESG Shareholder Engagement in Canada |
| 9:00 |
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| 9:10 |
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| 9:45 |
Panel on Oil Sands Companies
- This panel will examine climate change and environmental risk related to investment in oil sands energy companies. Speakers will address factual background information on these risks, shareholder engagement, and evolving best practices in the industry to address them.
- Speakers:
- Simon Dyer, Director, Oil Sands, The Pembina Institute
- Yulia Reuter, Senior Energy Research Analyst, RiskMetrics Group
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| 11:00 |
Panel on Extractive Industries
- This panel will look at the human rights and environmental issue concerns plaguing some industry players and associated investment risk. Speakers will discuss the business implications of these risks, shareholder action and proposals addressing them and the corporate perspective.
- Speakers:
- Phillipe Bélanger, Analyst and Assistant Director, Regroupement pour la Responsabilité Social et l’Equité (RRSE)
- Fiona Koza, Business and Human Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada
- Priti Shokeen, Senior Analyst, RiskMetrics Group
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PM Session: Pre-Season Governance Briefing |
| 1:00 |
Luncheon Address: Extra-financial Risk Disclosure Guidance
- Julie Desjardins, Advisor, Canadian Institute for Chartered Accountants, co-author “Building a Better MD&A Climate Change Disclosures” December, 2008
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| 2:00 |
Opening remarks for Governance Session
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| 2:10 |
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| 2:45 |
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| 3:15 |
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| 3:45 |
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This briefing is open to RiskMetrics Group's institutional investor clients.
