LIF’s Risk & Sustainability Symposium Toronto convenes senior leaders from law firms, corporate legal departments, and sustainability and ESG functions across industries to examine the most pressing environmental, social, and governance challenges facing businesses today.

Organizations operating in Canada are navigating an increasingly complex ESG landscape shaped by evolving regulatory requirements and investor pressure, while balancing domestic priorities with global expectations from the U.S. and Europe. At the same time, sustainability strategies are now increasingly embedded in the business, more data-driven and technology-enabled, with legal teams playing a central role in governance, disclosure, and enterprise risk management.

This exclusive, half-day program will feature candid, peer-level discussions on drivers impacting the current ESG landscape in Canada, including ESG reporting and regulatory obligations, modern slavery, Indigenous partnerships, and the growing role of sustainable finance in the low-carbon transition. We will explore how data platforms, analytics, and AI are enabling more credible reporting, stronger governance, and better alignment between sustainability objectives and business performance. We’ll also examine how the risk-management tools developed within ESG frameworks for climate and societal issues are now increasingly ingrained in business culture.

Participants will discover how organizations can build robust, forward-looking sustainability frameworks that mitigate legal and reputational risk, strengthen stakeholder trust, and support long-term value creation – positioning them to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and scrutinized global ESG environment.