#MEDIA: Today marks 10 years since PM Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizons speech, yet our financial system remains underprepared for climate risks and continues to favour investments in fossil fuels over clean energy.
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
Wall Street in Western Canada: How US money could drive the PRGT pipeline
Spoke with @emilylowan.bsky.social from @canrac.bsky.social all about the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline for this week's Climate Cents video interview.
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Canada’s new finance team has deep climate credentials. But as guest writer Alex Walker (@alex-w4lker.bsky.social) warns, tools like transition plans and taxonomies must deliver real results, not just enable fossil fuel expansion.
Read the full analysis: www.theenergymix.com/carney-champ...
BREAKING: Sit-ins call on BC NDP to reject MAGA pipeline.
Pro-democracy organizers are sitting-in at the offices of the Min of Energy in Victoria and Eby’s Vancouver office today, to demand that the BC NDP reject the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline. New website out now: stopprgt.ca A 🧵
This week's Climate Cents
- My analysis of old Carney speeches and what that means for climate finance in Canada 💰
- A breakdown of the latest developments in the Mathur et. al case led by Ecojustice Canada ⚖️
- Tony Blair's diatribe against net-zero 🙂↔️ climatecents.substack.com/p/climate-ce...
A view of Earth rising above the Moon's horizon, taken from space. The Moon's barren, gray surface stretches across the lower portion of the image, while Earth appears as a small, vibrant blue-and-white sphere against the vast blackness of space.
Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
🔥 #Climaterisk: the financial system is blind to the climate crisis.
And people will pay for this multiple times unless policymakers prepare the financial system for an orderly transition.
Read our blog 👉 www.finance-watch.org/blog/unprepa... #SafeTransition #ClimateLTV #Breakthedoomloop
🚨 In 2024, Canada handed nearly $30B in subsidies to fossil fuel companies, fueling pipelines & an aging industry at the expense of health, the environment, & our future. 🌍 It's time for sustainable energy solutions. 🌱
Read the full analysis 👉 bit.ly/3RxJUhe
#Media: Some good news! Yesterday the City of Toronto passed a motion to advance climate aligned finance! Decisions like this will help 🇨🇦 build a strong economy & stop the financing of polluters.
Read our full statement below: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/03/28/s...
This @insurancebureau.bsky.social advertisement does not mention climate change when it laments that "extreme weather is getting worse in Canada".
Protecting Canadians means reducing emissions to prevent climate-caused damage, not only a payout when damage happens.
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We just released the second edition of our newsletter Climate Cents. Thank you to @saveohioparks.bsky.social and @shiftaction.bsky.social for your contributions. Happy reading everyone :)) TLDR; CPPIB need to sort it out.
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Huge reporting on this one from Bloomberg. TD Bank involved in money laundering related to human trafficking, while slashing costs to maximize shareholder value.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
We're #Hiring 🚨
We're on the hunt for a passionate Senior Program Manager to lead bold climate campaigns, push for national policy change, and inspire a high-performing team.
Interested? 👇
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So much for Canada's strategy of shipping more oil to China
Energy security means reducing our dependence on volatile & sunsetting commodities, not doubling down on them
#MEDIA In 2024, fossil fuel lobbyists met with federal officials 1,135 times. That's over 4 times per workday.
Our New Report Exposes Big Oil’s Relentless Lobbying in 2024
📢 Press release here ⬇️
environmentaldefence.ca/2025/03/04/n...
Today Shift released its annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, collectively managing $2.4 trillion in retirement savings.
RBC finally pulled out of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance today. Check out my blog on the issue here: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/01/28/t...
In some good news, investment in low-carbon energy surpassed fossil fuels for the first time ever in 2023!
There was a lot of bad news in the report but I'll stick to the good today 😎
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Huge investigation out today, looking at how big polluters are accessing vast "sustainability-linked loans" which gives them access to cash without any requirement to reduce emissions 😠😠 pure greenwashing but fantastic reporting from this crew apnews.com/article/shel...
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
Earlier this fall @cafreeland held a meeting with the Pathways Alliance tarsands companies
I filed an ATIP requesting any briefing material - and was told there was none
This is not standard practice...is Freeland trying to hide the details of what was discussed?
Not going gently into that dark night of Trump-lite in Canada. I’m currently chained to a replica oil jack blocking Pierre Poilievre’s driveway, calling him out for protecting polluters over people
Last year the Pathways Alliance - a coalition of the largest tar sands companies - spent millions on a misleading ad campaign
Our new video exposes the truth behind Big Oil's greenwashing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yW...
Fossil fuel lobbyists are once again swarming climate negotiations, inc. Canada’s official delegate list
Our analysis of the UN’s Provisional List of #COP29 Participants found 28 people with ties to the fossil fuel sector were given Party badges by Canada
environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/14/f...
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$48 million in additional costs to provincial taxpayers to pay for the removal of existing bike lanes that have been constructed in recent years.
Lost investment of $27 million in city costs to install the existing infrastructure.
Likely minimal improvements in travel time once lanes
are removed 👍👍
The climate crisis is a very serious thing, but the shenanigans happening at the UN climate negotiations sometimes can only be illustrated through humour:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbZ...
