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DESCRIPTION:BLP / SGI-OSF Seminars in Business & Society 2023-2024\n\nDelia
  Cristea - Partner and General Counsel\, Power Sustainable\n\nThe seminar 
 will explore the transformation of the corporate sector under the pressure
  of the “ESG revolution”\, with a special focus on the “E” (environmental 
 factors). We will discuss the key players in Canada’s Net-Zero mission (co
 rporates\, financial system\, civil society\, policymakers\, universities)
 \, their progress to date and road ahead\, with particular focus on policy
 making (legislative progress to date\, gaps in the comparative context of 
 the EU model). Finally\, we will aim to cover the key challenges on delive
 ring on sustainable growth: lack of integration of Indigenous knowledge an
 d perspective\, polarization\, corporate inertia\, Canadian regional divid
 e and impact on vulnerable populations. The seminar will be presented from
  a practitioner’s point of view and will take the form of engaged discussi
 on on all the key areas of focus.\n\nBIO: Delia Cristea is a Partner and G
 eneral Counsel at Power Sustainable\, an investment firm in the sustainabi
 lity space\, focused on climate-related investments. She oversees the firm
 ’s legal\, compliance and culture functions and she is a member of the fir
 m’s Executive Committee. She is also responsible for the firm’s ecosystem 
 building activities in the sustainable finance space. Prior to Power Susta
 inable\, Delia worked as counsel for Power Corporation of Canada\, where s
 he most recently served as Assistant General Counsel. Prior to that\, she 
 was Associate at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Delia graduated with a gold medal 
 from McGill Faculty of Law and holds a license in law and a Masters in Eur
 opean law from Sorbonne University in Paris. She also chairs the board and
  the governance committee of Lawyers without Borders Canada. She is passio
 nate about supporting the growth of the sustainability ecosystem both in C
 anada and abroad. As such acts as board member or advisor to a number of o
 rganizations in this space\, including Cycle Momentum\, the McGill Sustain
 able Growth Initiative and the Green Finance Committee of the Canadian Cha
 mber of Commerce.\n
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LOCATION:Room NCDH 312
SUMMARY:The Green Transition  In The Corporate Sector Hope\, Challenges\, A
 nd What It Takes To Succeed  - Practical Aspects -
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/green-transition-corporate-sec
 tor-hope-challenges-and-what-it-takes-succeed-practical-aspects-352401
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