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...
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...
Are Fossil Assets the New Subprime?
According to the Banking On Climate Chaos 2021 report, between 2016 and 2020, (since the Paris Agreement), the world's 60 largest banks financed fossil...
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...
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...
When Will My Bank (RBC) Divest From Fossil Fuels?
Did you know that there are roughly 7.5 million grandparents living in Canada? And many, like Lorraine Green (and myself), have become climate activists,...
Indigenous Women Leaders Tell Banks To Stop Financing Climate Chaos
The 2021 Banking on Climate Chaos report is the most comprehensive analysis on fossil fuel banking produced to date. Since the Paris agreement in...
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...
Who Knew? Canada’s Big Banks Have Board Members With Ties To Fossils
"Polluting industries are overwhelmingly represented on the boards of the UK’s banks by directors with past and current connections to high-carbon and environmentally damaging...
Calling on Banks: Don’t Finance East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
Over 260 organizations are calling on banks to not finance EACOP (East African Crude Oil Pipeline) with a $2.5 billion loan for a "manifestly...