Richard Brooks
About Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks is the climate finance director with Stand.earth, based in Toronto. Before that, he led 350.org’s U.S. divestment and climate finance work, including the DivestNY campaign, which successfully secured groundbreaking pension divestment commitments from New York City in 2018 and New York state in 2020.
2022 connected the dots between fossil fuel finance and climate chaos
In 2023, watch as we build a climate-resilient economy that puts people over profit.
Wishing fossil fuel financiers a rocky new year
Canada's big banks and pension funds are facing tougher questions about their financial support for the fossil fuel industry. The crystal ball remains unclear how our financial institutions will respond, writes Richard Brooks.
Canada’s five largest banks have a big problem — fossil fuels
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.