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Canadian oil and gas stocks never really recovered from the global financial crisis. They had a bounce in 2009 as the economy improved, but a surge in U.S. shale production sparked another crash in 2014.

As one of the defining challenges of this generation, climate change is not just an environmental concern but also an economic one.Climate risks are typically disaggregated into physical risks (that refer to the potential for weather and climate-related damage to affect asset prices) and transition risks (those arising from the shift toward a low-carbon economy).Certain climate factors will ultimately influence which investments turn out to be successful - and which do not.

Interest in ESG (environmental, social and governance) investments is heating up, but there's a trend investors should watch out for before climbing aboard, Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says.

BlackRock is shaking up the business world with its decision to make sustainability the focus of its investment strategy. In his annual letter to CEOs, Larry Fink announced a number of new initiatives BlackRock is implementing to address climate change. Hal La