EDC solicits our stakeholders, including our shareholder, customers, Board of Directors, ESG Advisory Council, civil society organizations, industry and trade associations, financial sector peers and members of the Canadian public, for constructive feedback on our environmental and social risk management practices.

In 2022, as part of our Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy review, EDC’s Board of Directors approved five updated policies. 

As part of the process, EDC invited stakeholders to offer input and constructive feedback on the following policies:

1. Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy (2019)
2. Environmental and Social Review Directive (2019)
3. Climate Change Policy (including Thermal Coal Position) (2021)
4. Human Rights Policy (2019)
5. Transparency and Disclosure Policy (2020)

To assist stakeholders, we published a discussion paper that outlined some of the key issues, questions and proposals being considered in our review.

• Review of Environmental and Social Risk Management Policies—Discussion Paper

Submissions were emailed to ESRMPolicyReview@edc.ca during a 96-day comment period from January 24 to April 29, 2022.

Response paper
As part of the review process, we published a public paper responding to the feedback we received.

• Stakeholder Response Paper 2022

Summary of feedback
We also published a summary of stakeholder feedback (both written and verbal):

• Stakeholder Feedback Summary Report 2022

Written feedback
The following written stakeholder submissions were received:

• Mining Association of Canada
• Québec Net Positif (PDF in French only)
• Business & Human Rights Resource Center
• Lawyers Without Borders Canada /Avocats Sans Frontières Canada (PDF in French only)
• Ingénieurs Sans Frontières Québec  (PDF in French only)
• Teck Resources Limited

Written stakeholder submissions are available in the official language in which they were made.

For questions about posted feedback, contact ESRMPolicyReview@edc.ca.