Insight
Understanding ESG: the Canadian journey
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Report summary
This insight, the first of an ESG series, focuses on the basics. We explore what ESG is, why it is important to Canadian oil and gas companies, how ESG risk is a subset of corporate risk and how companies use sustainability reports to communicate ESG efforts. For a taste of where North American Large Caps are in the journey, we look at what stands out in the reports of five Canada-based companies and five US-based companies.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
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ESG basics
- Why is ESG important to Canadian oil and gas companies?
- Reporting standards
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ESG reports
- ESG report averages
- Focus words
- Metric comparison
- A few takeaways from comparing metrics
- Metrics compiled, now what?
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ESG journey
- ESG performance counts, to a degree
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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ESG highlights: CanadaExamples of criteria found in Canadian oil and gas ESG reportsESG risk translated into potential financial risk
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Financial institutions partially or completely blacklisting oil sandsESG reporting standards used by Canadian (red) and US (blue) companiesAverages of basic ESG report characteristicsTop 20 words in selected North America Large Cap ESG reportsData reported by categoryGoal setting example: reduction targets for GHG emissionsSimplified ESG journey map
What's included
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