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Canadian implications of US climate change regulation

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
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  • September 30 2009

While Canadian market participants are understandably focused on our own emerging climate change regulatory framework, it is important to keep up to date on U.S. developments and their potential implications for our markets and industries

Ontario to implement carbon reduction program

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 6 2013

Ontario's Ministry of Environment (MOE) has released a discussion paper to support a dialogue on the elements of a potential Provincial greenhouse

Canadian implications of US climate change regulation - Part II

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • December 9 2009

On September 30, 2009, Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act ("Kerry-Boxer", or the "Bill"

Conditional exemptions to SEC Rule 17g-5(a)(3) relevant for Canadian structured finance issuers

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • June 4 2010

Under the SEC's Release 34-61050, published in December 2009, additional disclosure and conflict of interest requirements were imposed on nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) in the United States

Delay announced for implementation for bank trading book capital rules

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 21 2010

In a statement of June 18, 2010, the Basel Committee of central bankers and financial supervisors agreed to a one year delay in the effective date of the new capital rules on bank trading books

Proposed changes to NI 81-102 relevant for derivatives and securities lending

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 6 2010

On June 25, 2010, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment proposed amendments to National Instrument 81-102 Mutual Funds (NI 81-102) and related instruments, which set out the regulatory framework for mutual funds under Canadian securities legislation

Election 2011: Canada's climate change future

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 27 2011

With the federal election just a few days away, we thought it would be useful to our readers to identify what each major political party's published campaign platform says about climate change and Canada's role in curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

CSA proposed securitized products rules - continuous disclosure

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 28 2011

As briefly discussed in prior blog posts, the securitized product rules published by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) propose to significantly expand the continuous and periodic disclosure regime applicable to issuers of securitized markets in both the public and private markets

The prescribed information memorandum requirements for short-term securitized products: the devil is in the details

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 5 2011

In previous blog entries, we introduced the CSA's proposed information memoranda requirements that are part of the recent securitization proposals

Emerging trends in global carbon finance

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 17 2011

Recent developments in international carbon finance have seen investors and carbon intermediaries moving away from the global carbon market and towards local initiatives, such asregional carbon trading regimes, as a means of participating in carbon reduction financing or achieving climate change objectives