Just before the start of the UN climate conference, hundreds of people across Canada showed up to deliver a message to Canada’s biggest fossil fuel funder, RBC: it must divest from fossil fuels and respect Indigenous rights!
Montreal / Toronto / Vancouver — Thousands of Canadians across the country are today protesting Canada’s largest bank, RBC, which refuses to stop financing fossil fuels.
The #DefundClimateChaos day of action is this Friday, 29th of October is just days away.
Readers of the Globe and Mail didn’t fall for the bait and switch editorial by Dave McKay last week.
The news today that Canada’s biggest banks have finally joined Mark Carney’s “Net Zero” banking alliance was met with a giant ho-hum by climate campaigners.
A huge win today for the climate! French bank La Banque Postale announced it is stopping all financing to the oil and gas sectors by 2030.
As the UN’s special envoy for climate finance, Canadian Mark Carney is one the most prominent leaders in the still new world of climate finance.
The Toronto Star reported today that RBC is one of many banks who are backing tar sands pipeline company Enbridge with “sustainability” linked loans.
Over the last few years, a growing movement has been building momentum to stop the money pipeline to tar sands, oil and gas projects that will ruin our climate and violate Indigenous rights.
The movement to force the world’s worst banks to stop funneling billions into fossil fuels and Indigenous rights violations is growing around the world.