Since the Quebec financial sector began to question the best way to take into account its impact and its dependencies on nature, around the 2020s, initiatives governing the consideration of biodiversity have evolved, and the ambition of the sector has gone up a notch.
Two major Quebec investors, Fondaction and CDPQ, have supported a research effort since 2022 aimed at better understanding the impact of their decisions on local biodiversity; alongside them, Biodiversité Québec and SNAP Québec have mobilized to measure and model these impacts by designing new decision-making tools. Thanks to initiatives like this, Quebec’s financial sector is becoming a source of inspiration in the collective effort to counter the decline of biodiversity.
Diego Creimer
Diego Creimer studied physics, cinema, fine arts, journalism and public relations. He worked in film production in his native country, Argentina, before settling in Quebec in 1999, where he worked for six years as a journalist at CBC/Radio-Canada International.
Passionate about the environment and social struggles, since 2012 he has held various positions as employee, executive and administrator within Canadian and Quebec environmental NGOs, including Greenpeace, the Quebec Environmental Law Center, Vigilance OGM and the Foundation David Suzuki. He joined the Society for Nature and Parks (SNAP Quebec) in 2021, where he holds the position of Director, Finance and Biodiversity. He represents Canada within the International Standards Organization for the development of the new ISO-Biodiversity standard. He is also a forest producer in the south of Beauce.
