TORONTO, December 10, 2025 – Today OPTrust releases its 2024-25 Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, providing an annual update on key aspects of its climate change strategy, designed in service of its mission and its members.
Highlights from the past year include:
Achieving key stewardship and process targets set for 2025.
Delivering a measurable reduction in the Fund’s carbon footprint.
Strengthening our tools and analytics to better assess climate-related risks and opportunities across all asset classes, including advancing the application of our climate taxonomy.
“We continue to deliver on our climate change strategy, strengthening our tools and analytics and fulfilling our 2025 stewardship and process targets,” said Alison Loat, Senior Managing Director, Sustainable Investing and Innovation at OPTrust. “These efforts have positioned us to better understand and manage climate-related risks and capture opportunities across the portfolio.”
OPTrust has a long-standing commitment to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, guided by our fiduciary obligation to uphold the long-term financial sustainability of the OPSEU Pension Plan. Against a backdrop of uncertainty, OPTrust maintains its ambition to achieve a net-zero emissions portfolio by 2050 and continues to drive meaningful progress on climate resilience.
About OPTrust
With net assets of over $26 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan (including OPTrust Select), a defined benefit plan with over 114,000 members. OPTrust was established to give plan members and the Government of Ontario an equal voice in the administration of the Plan and the investment of its assets through joint trusteeship. OPTrust is governed by a 10-member Board of Trustees, five of whom are appointed by OPSEU/SEFPO and five by the Government of Ontario.
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