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Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters

Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters
Part 1 Definitions and Interpretation
Section 2

Application

This Instrument applies to a reporting issuer other than a reporting issuer that is any of the following:

(a) an investment fund;

(b) an issuer of an asset-backed security;

(c) a designated foreign issuer or SEC foreign issuer;

(d) an exchangeable security issuer that is exempt under section 13.3 of National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations;

(e) a credit support issuer that is exempt under section 13.4 of National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations;

(f) an issuer that is a subsidiary entity, if

(i) the subsidiary entity does not have equity securities, other than non-convertible, non-participating preferred securities, trading on a marketplace, and

(ii) the parent of the subsidiary entity is

(A) subject to the requirements of this Instrument, or

(B) an issuer that has securities listed or quoted on a U.S. marketplace, and is in compliance with the corporate governance disclosure requirements of that U.S. marketplace.

Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters
Part 2 Disclosure Requirements
Section 3

Climate-related Governance Disclosure Requirements

(1) If management of a reporting issuer solicits a proxy from a security holder of the issuer for the purpose of electing directors to the reporting issuer’s board of directors, the issuer must include in its management information circular the disclosure referred to in Form 51-107A.

(2) A reporting issuer that does not send a management information circular to its security holders must include the disclosure referred to in Form 51-107A in its AIF, or if it does not file an AIF, in its annual MD&A.

Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters
Part 2 Disclosure Requirements
Section 4

Climate-related Strategy, Risk Management and Metrics and Targets Disclosure Requirements

(1) A reporting issuer must include the disclosure referred to in Form 51-107B in its AIF, or if it does not file an AIF, in its annual MD&A.

(2) A reporting issuer that includes the disclosure of GHG emissions referred to in Form 51-107B in its AIF or annual MD&A must use a GHG emissions reporting standard to calculate and report its GHG emissions.

Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters
Part 3 Exemption and Effective Date
Section 5

Exemption

(1) The regulator or securities regulatory authority may grant an exemption from this Instrument, in whole or in part, subject to such conditions or restrictions as may be imposed in the exemption.

(2) Despite subsection (1), in Ontario, only the regulator may grant such an exemption.

(3) Except in Ontario, an exemption referred to in subsection (1) is granted under the statute referred to in Appendix B of National Instrument 14-101 Definitions, opposite the name of the local jurisdiction.

Proposed National Instrument 51-107 Disclosure of Climate-related Matters
Part 3 Exemption and Effective Date
Section 6

Effective Date and Transition

(1) This Instrument comes into force on [●].

(2) This Instrument applies:

(a) in the case of a reporting issuer other than a venture issuer, in respect of each financial year beginning on or after [January 1 of the first year after [●];

(b) in the case of a venture issuer, in respect of each financial year beginning on or after [January 1 of the third year after [●].