
Women in Trade Guide
Our free guide is full of insights and advice to help Canadian women-owned businesses succeed internationally.
Our free guide is full of insights and advice to help Canadian women-owned businesses succeed internationally.
An ESG strategy can improve the value of your company’s products and services while decreasing negative impacts on people and the environment.
Discover key insights from 350 small- and medium-sized enterprises on how ESG/sustainability affects their business.
We care about people and strive to make the communities we live and work in better. We work to ensure our efforts are influencing better outcomes for people through our own actions and those of our customers.
As an export credit agency, we have a responsibility to respect human rights across our operations. We continue to evolve and strengthen our practices in line with best practices and the changing trade landscape.
Released our Human Rights Statement
Started embedding human rights risks into our environmental and social due diligence practices
Assessed our practice against the UNGPs
Aligned our environmental and social due diligence practices with the UNGPs
Began review of our Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy Framework
Issued our first board-approved and dedicated Human Rights Policy
Developed and approved Principles on Leverage and Remedy. Disclosed our Due Diligence Framework: Human Rights
How EDC helped this Black-owned business grow internationally
Owners of three women-led companies in the food-processing sector give tips for exporting to the U.S.
Women entrepreneurs discuss the challenges and opportunities of doing business internationally.
We believe that good social practices are key to EDC’s sustainability, to the long-term success of Canadian companies and to Canada’s international competitiveness and continued prosperity. As an organization, we aim to lead by example on diversity, equity and inclusion. In 2021:
Transactions underwent human rights screenings
Women-owned and -led business facilitated to date
Indigenous-owned and -led business facilitated to date
The percentage of EDC employees identifying as visible minorities
Increase in the percentage of persons with disabilities at EDC since 2020
Total donations in support of communities
EDC is guided by a number of agreements and standards that form the foundation of our view of best practices when it comes to environmental, social and governance issues. We’re also a contributing member of organizations setting the standard for sustainable, responsible business. Learn more about our commitments.
Explore policies, reports and other reference materials related to environmental, social and governance practices at EDC.
Drives our approach to human rights, including decision-making for the transactions we support and the actions we take.
Outlines how our policy commitments are integrated into our environmental and social risk assessment processes.
Describes how our leverage and remedy commitments are put into practice at EDC.
Highlights of our performance in 2021 and future plans.
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