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Patrick DeRochie

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About Patrick DeRochie

Patrick DeRochie is pension engagement manager with Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, a charitable project helping pension beneficiaries to engage constructively with their pensions on the climate crisis.

5 Articles

Breaking down Ontario Teachers’ 2050 net-zero emissions promise

With no clear definition for what net-zero means or how it will alter investment decisions, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan commitment runs the risk of becoming a cynical example of greenwashing, write Patrick DeRochie and Adam Scott.
Opinion | February 4th 2021

Time is now for Canada’s public pension giants to invest in a safe climate future

How pension funds invest our retirement savings is a major factor in how quickly we transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Opinion | December 28th 2020

Canada Pension Plan fuels the climate crisis with our own retirement savings

Why is the Canada Pension Plan pouring billions of our retirement savings into oil, gas and coal companies that are incompatible with a safe climate?
News | October 5th 2020
Rachel Notley, oilsands, pipelines, Kinder Morgan, British Columbia, Trans Mountain

Time to stand up to the oil industry’s “competitiveness” fear-mongering

The incessant grumbling from Canada’s oil industry—on pipelines, environmental reviews, carbon pricing and competitiveness—is obscuring the obvious.
Opinion, Energy, Politics | May 3rd 2018

OPINION: Put facts before politics in modernizing NEB process

An environmentalist opposes a recommendation that cabinet determine whether a proposed pipeline is in the "national interest" before a technical project review and environmental assessment.
News, Energy, Politics | June 16th 2017

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