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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.

Despite recent successes, students urging their universities to divest from fossil fuels say school administrations need to pay closer attention to their demands.

Veteran climate activist Bill McKibben joined Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood last week to talk about Canada's climate future.

World’s biggest investor wants polluting industries to set targets to cut emissions and reach net zero

With no clear definition for what net-zero means or how it will alter investment decisions, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan commitment runs the risk of becoming a cynical example of greenwashing, write Patrick DeRochie and Adam Scott.

The Climate Reality Project founded by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is turning its attention to Canadian universities with the expansion of its Campus Corps program.

The principal of McGill university is defending the institution's commitment to reducing carbon emissions after a professor resigned over its refusal to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

The question is simple: is it socially responsible, in 2019, knowing what we know about the role of fossil fuels in the creation and acceleration of the climate crisis, to invest in the fossil fuel industry? Amazingly, McGill University has answered yes.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board says it is “unfathomable” that the fossil fuel industry could disproportionately influence such a massive and diversified portfolio.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board could not say whether it was considering axing its fossil fuel holdings.

Zurich Insurance Group's new policy comes after Canada’s regulator of financial institutions issued a statement asking all insurers to develop a low-carbon transition strategy.

Last week, we submitted our resignations as elected faculty representatives to the Board of Governors of McGill University. Our years of experience on the board suggest to us that it will most likely reject a recent resolution by the McGill Senate in support of divestment of the university’s endowment fund from fossil fuel companies. Such a decision would be unconscionable...

Less than a month after saying it wouldn’t increase its offer to buy the equity it doesn’t own in three North American subsidiaries, Calgary−based Enbridge Inc. is doing just that.

The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support in the lower house of parliament.

A major French bank has joined a growing group of international businesses, schools and financial institutions that have pledged to go fossil fuel-free with their investments.