Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm the co-founder of AlphaFixe Capital, a portfolio management company that specializes in bond markets. We are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. We are accordingly regulated by the Autorité des marchés financiers.
In 2017, we launched Canada's first green bond fund. The main objective of that fund was to facilitate the financing of projects that would have a positive impact in terms of the environment, such as renewable energy, public transportation or green buildings.
I'm very proud that, since 2017, we have financed more than $10 billion of such projects; however, we have had very limited success in terms of helping to decarbonize the energy infrastructure industry, which is the reason we're here today. If, all together, Canada doesn't rise to this challenge, there's a good chance part of this industry might appear to disappear. When we look at the success we've had with our green bond fund, we're here to express some ideas in terms of how we could recreate that success and help the oil and gas industry decarbonize to meet Canada's objectives.
I'm joined here with Simon Senécal, who's going to walk you through some ideas in terms of what the missing pieces are that might be helpful to decarbonize the energy infrastructure sector.
Simon.