This past summer, I interned as an Associate with the Sustainable Advisory team at CIBC Capital Markets. Sustainable Advisory offers insights on non-financial factors to corporate clients and CIBC's Product & Industry Groups. As such, in my role, I researched the evolving field of natural capital, developed ESG-specific KPIs to integrate into CIBC's financial products, synthesized the state of voluntary and mandatory disclosures for corporate clients, produced CIBC's Sustainability Agenda podcasts and newsletters and lastly, assisted the development of Carbonplace. This platform will enable secure and scalable transactions for carbon credits.