Climate Finance Director @Stand.earth
Fighting climate change by challenging the power of the financial institutions enabling fossil fuels companies. Banks, pensions and retirement funds on my radar. Advancing climate finance action.
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There is no good financial reason for Canadian public pensions to invest their members' money into the risky, malfunctioning LNG Canada project. The associated Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline supplying this terminal was only built with the use of armed militarized police.
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Great reporting by @natashabulowski.bsky.social with @nationalobserver.com on First Nations leaders putting Canada's big public pensions on notice, demanding they respect their rights & lands and not invest in polluting, malfunctioning LNG Canada.
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Read the full letter here:
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🇨🇦 Canada's Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social is former chair of Brookfield.
🇩🇪 Brookfield just teamed up with the national pension fund CPP to buy a stake in Uniper, the German gas company.
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Tom DiNapoli faces three challengers in June NY comptroller primary share.google/BspZtB7gsZjk...
Meanwhile CPP, under pressure from .... Mark Carney... is considering taking a multibillion equity stake in LNG Canada with other public pensions & the support of taxpayer money from Export Development Canada, controlled by the Prime Minister.
Makes you think. 🤔
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After rejecting fossil fuel divestment for nearly 15 years on the grounds that a "seat at the table" can lead to transformation of the Exxons of the world, NY State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli just needs to give it up such a unproven excuse.
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Uniper, at the behest of the Germany seeking a $120 billion submarine contract with Canada, just signed a hyped gas letter of interest w/ Ksi Lisims LNG - a project that Carney really wants to get built, willing to throw billions of taxpayer dollars at.
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🚨 Canada’s largest pension funds are facing pressure from the federal government to finance risky LNG projects that would worsen the climate crisis and undermine their own members’ retirement security. Working and retired pension plan members are speaking out.
As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...
Near Smithers, British Columbia (Wet’suwet’en territory) — Hereditary Chiefs of the Gidimt’en and Likhts’amisyu clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, together with the President of the Union of British Co...
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Uniper is seeking to increase its flexibility to schedule shipments of LNG globally
In a letter to Canadian pension funds, some First Nations leaders are called on pension funds to clearly state their position on investing in LNG Canada Phase 1 and 2 by June 25 and requested meetings...
Near Smithers, British Columbia (Wet’suwet’en territory) — Hereditary Chiefs of the Gidimt’en and Likhts’amisyu clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, together with the President of the Union of British Co...
A potential bidder is Brookfield, the investment group run by Mark Carney, who was Bank of England governor between 2013 and 2020. Uniper has a range of UK assets that are seen as valuable for any wou...
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Longtime incumbent Tom DiNapoli faces several challengers for NY comptroller, a position he's held since 2007. Learn more about the June 23 primary.
As Carney attempts to fast-track dirty gas megaprojects, First Nations leaders have a warning:
Any investors in LNG Canada will be complicit in grave violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, title and sovereignty.
📣 Listen to Hereditary Chief Na’Moks’ powerful message for financiers. 📣 #GreenSky
