Webinar: Navigating Canada’s new anti-greenwashing rules

In an effort to combat greenwashing, Bill C-59 requires all businesses to substantiate environmental claims with adequate and verifiable testing. What do these new rules mean for the Canadian cleantech ecosystem? What are the risks and opportunities?

Learn about how this will impact the cleantech sector and what you should do to continue telling your climate impact story.

Key points

• Overview: Explaining Bill C-59 and the anti-greenwashing legislation
• Relevance: Impacts to the cleantech sector (start-ups and corporates)
• Risks: Demystifying the risks
• Addressing the risks: Measures to take to avoid risks and use this as an opportunity for growth

Speakers

Tony Di Domenico is a Partner and Co-Leader of the firm’s Competition, Marketing and Foreign Investment Group. As former counsel to Canada’s Commissioner of Competition (Department of Justice Canada) and having served as counsel in many of Canada’s most significant competition matters, Tony is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading practitioners in competition law and litigation.

Kai Alderson is a Partner in Fasken’s energy and natural resources group in Vancouver and is a founding member of Fasken’s ESG and Sustainability Group. He provides strategic advice to industrial emitters, financial institutions and regulated utilities on climate- and sustainability-related corporate disclosures, environmental product marketing, and corporate decarbonization initiatives. He also advises carbon offset developers, investors and aggregators on the structuring, financing and development of innovative, high-quality carbon offset projects and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects, both domestically and internationally.

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