What do Heat Waves, Wildfires and Banks Have in Common?
The recent leak of a draft of the next IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warns that recovery from climate breakdown may be...
A Mother’s Call For Climate Action
Carole Holmes is Co-Chair of GASP, Grandmothers Act to Save the Planet. As a grandmother she has deep concerns for the environmental health of...
Tell Your Bank: Don’t Dirty My Money
Did you know that the money you've set aside for tomorrow and for the future of your children and grandchildren is being used to...
To Prevent Extinction, Banks Have To Stop Funding It
"To prevent extinction, banks have to stop funding it." — Portfolio Earth That's according to Bankrolling Extinction, a new report published Wednesday by Portfolio Earth, an initiative seeking...
Risks to Oil & Gas Finance Are Opaque: What Should Banks Be Telling Us?
The just-released 2020 report on global fossil fuel financing by banks, Banking on Climate Change 2020, shows how the big banks are promoting the...
Canadian Banks Are Fueling Climate Destruction
Canadian banks are playing a growing and globally significant role in fueling climate destruction and are more exposed to climate risk than they are...
RBC Supports Expansion of Tar Sands Pipelines With “Sustainability” Loan
"In the lead up to the critically important COP26 climate summit, Canada’s largest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) inked a new deal...
Banking On Climate Chaos: World’s Top 60 Banks Pump USD 3.8 Trillion In Fossils...
Despite a massive global drop in fossil fuel demand and production during the pandemic, banks’ 2020 fossil fuel financing numbers still remained above 2016...
Say NO to Your #FossilBank – It’s Time To Move Your Money
Thousands of Canadians witnessed the first #FossilBanksNoThanks national action day (this past Friday) exposing the ugly truth that Canada's Big Five banks—RBC, TD, BMO,...
Canada’s Fossilized Finance Sector: Big Five Fossil Banks
"Despite Canada’s climate change commitments, the country’s “big five” banks continue to finance and support the expansion of fossil fuel industries," writes Donald Gutstein...
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