Richard Brooks is the climate finance director with Stand.earth, based in Toronto. Before that, he led 350.org’s U.S. divestment and climate finance work, including the DivestNY campaign, which successfully secured groundbreaking pension divestment commitments from New York City in 2018 and New York state in 2020.
Canada's big banks and pension funds are facing tougher questions about their financial support for the fossil fuel industry. The crystal ball remains unclear how our financial institutions will respond, writes Richard Brooks.
Those holding our savings and mortgages and controlling the flow of money into coal, oil and gas — RBC and the rest of Canadian banking gang — need to wake up and smell the CO2, writes Richard Brooks, climate finance director with Stand.earth.
