VCIB buys CoPower, eyes expansion of its green finance model

By Alastair Sharp

David Berliner has been interested in conserving and protecting the environment since he was a teenager. Now, he has a chance to make a real difference.

His youthful days canoeing through Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario have given way to a green financing platform he co-founded in his late 20s called CoPower Inc. CoPower lends to green projects with steady, predictable returns and pools that debt into bonds it then offers to investors with as little as $5,000 to spare. Read More