New goal is concentrated on supporting environmental, decarbonization and social actions as a part of the Financial institution’s broader ESG Technique
TORONTO, March 16, 2023 /CNW/ – Right now, TD Financial institution Group (TD or the Financial institution) launched a brand new Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal to help its clients, shoppers and the communities it serves by aiming to mobilize $500 billion CAD by 2030 by means of monetary actions together with lending, financing, underwriting, advisory providers, insurance coverage, and the Financial institution’s personal investments.
This new goal represents the subsequent step within the Financial institution’s efforts to assist help its clients and shoppers within the transition to a low-carbon economic system and assist contribute to bettering social outcomes. The eligible environmental, decarbonization and social actions are targeted on supporting progress towards key sustainability goals of TD corresponding to local weather change mitigation and adaptation and financial inclusion.
“Mobilizing sustainable finance is a beneficial enterprise alternative in addition to a crucial a part of our work in the direction of our goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions related to our operations and financing actions by 2050,” mentioned Janice Farrell Jones, SVP of Sustainability and Company Citizenship, TD Financial institution Group. “Our new Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal is an thrilling subsequent step ahead that builds on the progress we have been making for over a decade to assist drive optimistic and measurable impacts on society and our surroundings, and to assist contribute to a extra inclusive and sustainable future.”
As a part of the announcement, TD printed a Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal Methodology which outlines the Financial institution’s method to categorizing, assessing, and reporting on progress in the direction of its new goal, together with:
- The monetary actions of the Financial institution that contribute towards the goal, together with lending, financing, underwriting, advisory providers, insurance coverage, and the Financial institution’s personal investments.
- The environmental, decarbonization and social actions eligible to be counted towards the goal, together with mapping to the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets.
- A governance course of to assist help its work to quantify, validate, monitor, and report progress towards the goal.
TD intends to yearly report, on a cumulative foundation, about its progress towards the Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal in a number of future ESG-related studies.
In 2017, TD was the primary main Canadian financial institution to set a monetary goal of $100 billion CAD to be deployed by 2030 towards low-carbon lending, financing, asset administration and inner company applications. In 2022, the Financial institution achieved this goal and particulars might be discovered within the 2022 ESG Report.
Right now TD additionally launched its 2022 ESG Reporting Suite, which gives info on the Financial institution’s technique and efficiency associated to environmental, social and governance issues. To view these studies, please go to: https://www.td.com/ca/en/about-td/for-investors/economic-social-governance-reporting/
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About TD Financial institution Group
The Toronto-Dominion Financial institution and its subsidiaries are collectively often called TD Financial institution Group (“TD” or the “Financial institution”). TD is the fifth largest financial institution in North America by belongings and serves over 27 million clients in 4 key companies working in quite a lot of places in monetary centres across the globe: Canadian Private and Business Banking, together with TD Canada Belief and TD Auto Finance Canada; U.S. Retail, together with TD Financial institution, America’s Most Handy Financial institution®, TD Auto Finance U.S., TD Wealth (U.S.), and an funding in The Charles Schwab Company; Wealth Administration and Insurance coverage, together with TD Wealth (Canada), TD Direct Investing, and TD Insurance coverage; and Wholesale Banking, together with TD Securities. TD additionally ranks among the many world’s main on-line monetary providers corporations, with greater than 15 million energetic on-line and cell clients. TD had $1.9 trillion in belongings on January 31, 2023. The Toronto-Dominion Financial institution trades beneath the image “TD” on the Toronto and New York Inventory Exchanges.
Cautionary Assertion Concerning Disclosure on the Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal
This doc isn’t required to be ready or filed by the Toronto-Dominion Financial institution (the “Financial institution” or “TD”) beneath Canadian or U.S. securities legal guidelines. Whereas the knowledge offered on this doc could also be related and of curiosity to our stakeholders, it shouldn’t be learn as a willpower of materiality for disclosure required in our securities legislation filings. This doc additionally accommodates statements which might be forward-looking, and topic to the Financial institution’s warning concerning forward-looking statements as set out within the Financial institution’s Report back to Shareholders for the 12 months ended October 31, 2022, which is accessible at www.td.com.
Due to the constraints and uncertainties inherent in local weather and sustainability science and local weather and sustainability threat evaluation and reporting, the Financial institution has relied upon numerous market practices, taxonomies, methodologies, standards and requirements and made cheap and good religion approximations and assumptions in establishing its Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Goal (the “Goal”). Nonetheless, there are lots of elements which might be the topic of evolving local weather and sustainability science and that the Financial institution could not foresee or be capable of precisely predict, which can influence TD’s capacity to attain the Goal. These elements embody the provision of complete and high-quality information (together with from TD’s shoppers), the assumptions underlying third-party decarbonization situations, financial developments (together with adjustments in rates of interest), fluctuations in our shoppers’ enterprise values, the relevant home and worldwide regulatory and legislative regimes, the necessity for energetic and persevering with participation of stakeholders (together with enterprises, monetary establishments and governmental and non-governmental organizations), the event and deployment of recent applied sciences and manufacturing strategies, border measures and the provision of sector-specific options, amongst different unexpected occasions or circumstances. These and different elements could trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from the Financial institution’s Goal and should end result within the Financial institution adapting its Goal to mirror a altering local weather and regulatory context.
Specifically, readers must be conscious that with a purpose to set the Goal: TD has assumed, amongst different issues, continued development in its shoppers’ investments in and expenditures on environmental, decarbonization and social actions in mild of regulatory, coverage, financial, technological, climatic and different developments. If these assumptions show to be inaccurate, it could influence TD’s capacity to satisfy its Goal.
- TD has additionally assumed peculiar charges of development and improvement of the enterprise. Modifications in TD’s enterprise (together with in its lending, financing, underwriting and advisory providers, and in its personal investments), its possession and management of subsidiaries and its geographic footprint (together with by means of relocations, mergers, acquisitions, or inclinations) may have a fabric impact on TD’s Goal.
- As well as, there might be adjustments to the market practices, taxonomies, methodologies, standards and requirements that regulators, the monetary sector, the Financial institution and its shoppers use to find out the eligibility of monetary transactions and environmental, decarbonization and social actions for inclusion towards sustainability and decarbonization targets. There can also be adjustments to the methodologies and requirements for classifying, measuring, reporting on and verifying such transactions and actions. TD could replace the Goal, its progress towards the Goal and the eligibility of sure transactions and actions, as acceptable, in mild of evolving market practices, taxonomies, methodologies, standards and requirements.
- To set, observe and report on progress towards assembly its Goal, TD should depend on information obtained from shoppers and different third-party sources. TD’s use of third-party information shall not be taken as an endorsement of the third-party or its information or be construed as granting any type of mental property. Though TD believes these sources are dependable, the Financial institution has not independently verified any third-party information, or assessed the assumptions underlying such information, and can’t assure the accuracy of such third-party information or assumptions. The info utilized by TD in reference to the Goal, together with to judge shoppers’ meant use of capital, could subsequently be restricted in high quality, unavailable, or inconsistent throughout sure sectors. Sure third-party information can also change over time as market practices, taxonomies, methodologies, standards and requirements evolve. These elements and associated uncertainties may have a fabric impact on the Goal and TD’s capacity to satisfy the Goal.
- “Sustainable finance” and “decarbonization” market practices, taxonomies, methodologies, standards and requirements are additionally evolving. Consequently, the Financial institution’s use of those phrases, and its eligibility standards for the Goal, could fluctuate over time with regards to such adjustments. Any references to “sustainable investing,” “sustainable finance,” “ESG,” “carbon impartial”, “NetZero” or related phrases on this doc are meant as references to the internally outlined standards of the Financial institution and to not any jurisdiction-specific regulatory definition which will exist.
This doc shouldn’t be used as a foundation for buying and selling in securities of the Financial institution or for every other funding choice. This doc isn’t meant to represent monetary, authorized, tax, funding, skilled or skilled recommendation. No illustration or guarantee, specific or implied, is or will probably be made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the knowledge contained on this doc.
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