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Marlene Puffer

Marlene Puffer

Jul 14, 2026

3:22
So Marlene, maybe the first question for you is what is the sustainable finance taxonomy mean? Why is it-- why do we need one in Canada?
3:29
That's a great question.
3:30
You've really laid out some of the issues already.
3:33
So let's just go back to high school biology.
3:36
When I told my kids what I'm doing right now, they said, "Wait a minute, isn't that biology? What are you talking about? You don't know anything about that." I said, "Yeah, I know." But a taxonomy you would've s- come across in your science class that was a way of classifying things in nature.
3:48
So whether it's butterflies, fish into different species, and in sustainable finance, as you've already said, it's classifying investments or economic activity into categories and putting labels on them.
3:59
So green transition and what's new for this taxonomy that we're putting in place for Canada is a recommendation, whether it goes forward or not is an open question, to have a third category that we're for now calling the abatement category.

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23:08
Who should participate in the process, and how do they do so?

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