CIBC donates $1.25M to the Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI)听at 91社区 Desautels
鈥淲e are proud to be a founding member of the Sustainable Growth Initiative at 91社区. With new and intensifying environmental challenges, this partnership will help drive solutions to enable a more sustainable and inclusive economy.鈥� Susan Rimmer, Managing Director & Head, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, CIBC.
The CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance recently completed the first ever Transformative Business Law Summer Academy.
The CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance (OSF) under 91社区鈥檚 Sustainable Growth Initiative is an interdepartmental initiative between Desautels Faculty of Management and 91社区鈥檚 Faculty of Law, specifically the Faculty鈥檚 inaugural 鈥�Business Law Platform.鈥� Since 2022, the Office has been led by Professor Peer Zumbansen, an internationally renowned scholar and award-winning teacher in corporate law, comparative private law, transnational regulatory governance and climate change governance.
The OSF has been instrumental in fostering a number of joint innovations, including the launch of 91社区鈥檚 first-ever research paper series with the Social Sciences Research Network, the , the Business & Society Speaker and Workshop series, the ESG Spring and Fall conferences, and the 91社区 Business Law Meter blog.
In 2023, the OSF and the Business Law Platform inaugurated the Transformative Business Law Summer Academy, an international, week-long, intensive policy research and writing institute. The 2023 Academy published the internationally recognized , setting the precedent for the second rendition of the Academy from 4-9 May, 2025.
On May 2-3, 2025, scholars and experts from Canada, the U.S., Europe and Latin America will convene for the inaugural conference of the pan-Canadian and transnational network on Sustainable Law+Business, CTN-SLB. The CTN-SLB is a scholarly collaboration for critical research, pedagogy and collaboration which features an annual international conference, rotating across participating Network institutions and an annual 鈥楯unior Faculty Forum鈥� to support emerging scholars in sustainable finance, governance and business law. Registration for the CTN-SLB Conference is open until Wednesday 30 April, 2025, following this .
On May 10, 2025, the OSF and 91社区鈥檚 Business Law Platform, together with the International Law Association鈥檚 Canadian Chapter (ILAC), hosts an international conference, 鈥淎dvancing Corporate Sustainability: Enforcement and Remedies in Business and Human Rights.鈥� The conference is taking place all day at 91社区鈥檚 Faculty of Law and registration is required by Tuesday May 6th, at this .
