On Friday over 40 climate activists were arrested in New York City, shutting down JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America branches for spending tens of billions bankrolling tar sands oil expansion during the climate emergency.
Banks in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland have been under increasing pressure from social movements due to their fossil fuel investments.
A new report from the Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International finds that Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S.
This article was written by Evelyn Austin of Bank on a Better Future and originally published in the National Observer.
Canadian banks are playing a growing and globally significant role in fueling climate destruction and are more exposed to climate risk than they are telling their shareholders according to data in a new Greenpeace report.
The military junta in Myanmar is one of the world’s worst regimes, murdering, arresting its citizens and committing war crimes including genocide with near total impunity.
Many people still don’t know their banks are as bad for the climate as oil companies, so a group of activists in Toronto are organizing rides that stop at bank branches and leaving a little message behind.
While Canada (and the world) suffers killer heatwaves and out of control wildfires, more and more of us are taking the message of action to Canada’s biggest investor in climate doom: RBC Bank.
Yesterday Toronto based climate justice activists visited all 5 of Canada’s bank headquarters in downtown Toronto with a simple message: as Canada suffers killer heatwaves and damaging wildfires, it’s Canada’s banks that are making the disasters worse.
Bloomberg Green recently covered the growing campaign to pressure banks – including Canada’s top fossil bank RBC – to stop funding the controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline.