What RBC Branch Managers Need To Know
On October 29th, 2021, Land defenders and grassroots activists took action at more than 30 RBC bank branches across Canada to stop RBC from...
New Climate Rules for Canada’s Big Banks
In late December of last year, Canada released a new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, (starting January 1, 2023)...
Shameful: Canada Is a World Leader for Fossil Fuel Finance
We Canadians have the dubious honour of being a world leader in financing fossil fuels and the worst offender of all G20 nations. Just...
Why Are We Paying Big Oil During The Pandemic
A report released in April shows that Canada's federal government provided some $18 billion in subsidies and financial support to the fossil fuel industry...
Canadian Pension Plans Are Funding the Climate Crisis
Canada's pension plans are funding the climate crisis by investing trillions in fossil fuel production and expansion. In an Op-Ed published in Corporate Knights earlier...
Backsliding on Climate: The World Was Right To Be Skeptical
"The political will for painful choices is evaporating fast...turns out the world was right to be skeptical,” Bloomberg writes about expectations coming out of...
Canada’s Banks Among The ‘Dirty Thirty’ Lenders To Global Coal Industry
On the same day a new report showing that Canada's banks are among the 'Dirty Thirty' lenders to the global coal industry, RBC—Canada's largest...
Fossilflation – the Conversation Should Be About the F-word
"If inflation is top of the public mind, the conversation should be about the F-word — how much of our economic problems are rooted...
Unless We End Financing of Coal, It Will End Us
The 2018 IPCC Report stated emphatically that coal-fired power production worldwide must be reduced by 78% by 2030 to keep the world on a...
Why Are Canadian Banks and Insurance Companies Still Financing Russian Oil
"Canadian banks, insurance companies and asset managers have pumped millions into Russian-owned oil and gas companies that have flowed into the petrostate’s war chest,"...