Breaking: Montreal announced it will be divesting its $10 billion employee pension fund from fossil fuels.

Congratulations and thank you to Mayor Valérie Plante for your #climate leadership.

#Montreal
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Congratulations to our inspiring friends at YINTAH (2024), Directors Jenn Wickham, Brenda Mitchell & Michael Toledano for winning @hotDocs' audience award.

The film chronicles the Wet’stuwet’en resistance to @CoastalGaslink & assertion of their rights. Gidimt’en Checkpoint

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Congrats to our friends in Australia for getting their country's largest fund to divest from thermal #coal companies. Another $280 billion to add to the $40 trillion of assets by 1615+ institutions divesting from fossil fuels.

#divest

Speaking from deep knowledge of RBC's financing of coal, oil & gas, I can assure the Texas Attorney General that Canada's largest bank is not “boycotting” the fossil fuels industry.
Texas Attorney General you are welcome to use me as a character reference.
#ESG Bloomberg Green
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New report from our friends at University of Waterloo w/ As You Sow reveal that the retirement funds of 2 million workers at just 12 tech companies lost out on over $5 billion by not divesting from fossil fuels a decade ago.

That’s avoidable bad financial management.

“Indigenous peoples face continuous threats for standing against the destruction of their ancestral lands in the Amazon, yet Citi supports companies like Petroperú, known for severe oil spills & undermining rights.” Mary Mijares, Amazon Watch Campaigner
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🚨 New report reveals @KKR_co's hidden carbon emissions are 6,500 times greater than reported! Discover the truth behind the private equity giant's environmental impact.

Read more: hubs.ly/Q02vqJjR0

BREAKING: Citi investors demand the bank protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Today, 26% of investors voted for Citi to reveal the effectiveness of its Indigenous Rights policies.

Investors know that oil and gas extraction on Indigenous lands is a risky investment.

Ask Citi

BREAKING: Citi’s investors demand the bank protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Today, 26% of investors voted for Ask Citi to reveal the effectiveness of its Indigenous Rights policies.

Even investors know that oil and gas extraction on Indigenous lands is a bad investment.

California retirees urging CalPers to stop investing their pension in Big Oil--a wonderful essay from Ruth Holton-Hodson, who points out that Exxon is now suing shareholders who try to 'engage.'
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Congratulations Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander on positive votes of support at Bank of America (26% support) Morgan Stanley (29%) on your groundbreaking energy financing ratio reporting resolution.

Banks need to better finance the energy transition.

#esg #climate
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The Canada Pension Plan may be able to weather a bad investment in a risky oil and gas producer, but it can’t weather the catastrophic consequences of a world that allows the climate crisis to spiral out of control. #MakePollutersPay

Big shout out to Axe Drax and others in the UK, including TV wildlife celeb Chris Packham protesting Drax burning wood pellets from B.C. and US South East forests for electricity. bit.ly/3Uc0JiR #AxeDrax #ReparationsNow

💥LAND BACK! Congrats to the Nuchatlaht First Nation that won a landmark legal case last week.
The B.C. government must stop fighting tooth & nail against Indigenous land Title and Rights, and instead uphold #UNDRIP & #DRIPA