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Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC terminated its membership of a major climate-banking group, joining a wave of Wall Street firms that recently quit a global alliance intended to aid the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday that she is resigning from cabinet, hours before she was scheduled to table the Trudeau government’s Fall Economic Statement.

Canadian Housing Minister Sean Fraser is resigning from cabinet and doesn’t plan to run in the next election, a move that comes as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party languishes in the polls with an election looming in 2025.

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says that Canada has experienced “failures of execution” when it comes to immigration policy in recent years, taking in more people than the economy was able to handle.

Former central banker Mark Carney has warned there will be “significant stranded assets” in commercial real estate as governments push to reach net zero, highlighting the risks to property owners and lenders from older buildings that cannot adapt.

Controversy broke out last week over a proposal from Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., the investment company, to create a $50-billion fund that would include pension and federal government money to invest in Canadian equities. Much of the uproar was focused on a conflict of interest for Brookfield senior executive, Mark Carney, who was recently appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to provide advice on economic policy.

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Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. has raised an initial US$2.4 billion for a fund dedicated to investing in clean energy and transition assets in emerging markets, about halfway to its goal.

Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party and the current favourite to win the next election, attacked former central banker Mark Carney for agreeing to help Justin Trudeau on economic policy.

Last week was a busy one for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Leaks undermining his finance minister surfaced, as did reports that he was courting former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney. But the biggest splash was in the New York Post, which reported that Canada quietly spent US$6.63 million (C$9 million) to buy a lavish condo overlooking Central Park on Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, which we later learned is meant to house our consul general, former broadcaster Tom Clark.

BEIJING — U.S. business leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, the latest of Beijing's efforts to bolster foreign investment in China amid tensions with the U.S.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney issued a warning at the World Economic Forum that global supply shocks are becoming more persistent, forcing central bankers to adapt to tame inflation.Carney, who also previously led the Bank of England, spoke on a panel in Davos, Switzerland at the WEF summit Thursday about how central bankers ought to adapt their approaches for the modern economy.He said the current regime has been successful so far in taming the ongoing inflationary period, as some of the supply shocks following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have unwound and higher interest rates globally have limited demand in the world economy.But he warned that central bankers cannot rest on their laurels amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and a changing economic context.“We are in a world, I would suggest, where we are going to see additional supply shocks with some relatively high degree of certainty with some persistence,” Carney said.“Effectively, the world is being rewired.”Though Carney did not directly reference Houthi attacks in the Red Sea forcing companies to divert cargo away from the key shipping corridor, he said trade routes are being “rewired” to “derisk” global supply chains.Energy systems, too, are being rewired to address climate change concerns, Carney said.

There’s plenty of money to be made by investing in the green energy transition, and financial professionals who say otherwise aren’t paying attention to the facts, according to Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. chair Mark Carney.

“Transition finance” is shaping up to be one of the new year’s most important subjects for anyone professing to care about the climate crisis.

Charles Randell (pictured), former chair of the Financial Conduct Authority

Shadow chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves

Mark Carney (pictured) is the co-chair of GFANZ and the UN special envoy on climate action and finance.

Around two-thirds of City professionals would back Keir Starmer as the UK’s next prime minister | Credit: Keir Starmer, Twitter

Brookfield is looking to grow its $25-billion asset portfolio in the country further, said former central banker Mark Carney, also the UN Special Envoy for climate action and finance. The chair of Brookfield Asset Management and head of transition investing at the firm told Deepshikha Sikarwar & Vinay Pandey in an interview that India has a big opportunity amid global supply chain disruptions. Edited excerpts:The US Federal Reserve chairman has made it clear the central bank is not done with containing inflation. What is your reading of Jerome Powell's statement?My reading of what he emphasised is that the Fed's policy is going to continue to be restrictive for some time.

NEW DELHI : The transformation under way in India is a key source of optimism for Mark Carney, the chair of Brookfield Asset Management, and the head of transition investing and UN special envoy for climate action and finance. In an interview, Carney, who was the governor of Central Bank of Canada (2008-13) and Bank of England (2013-2020) before joining the asset manager, said it was impressive that some of India’s largest conglomerates are pushing ahead in the clean-energy space. Last year, Brookfield closed a $15 billion global fund to invest in clean energy; of this, the asset manager invested $1.5 billion in India.

BRICS Summit, followed by a Greece visit, will be addressing the B20 Summit India in national capital Delhi on Sunday, 27 August. The Prime Minister's Office informed that the Summit has brought policy makers, business leaders and experts from across the world to deliberate and discuss the B20 India Communique. “At 12 noon tomorrow, 27th August, I will be addressing the B20 Summit India 2023.