Richard Brooks
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.
- Breaking: Taxpayers in Canada should be asking a lot of questions about the #LNG projects Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social Carney wants to fast track. In this oped in @vancouversun.bsky.social, I look at the market, financial reality of proposed projects: Ksi Lisims LNG and LNG Canada.
- Ew. It's disgusting that my national pension plan is invested in Elon Musk's xAI and Grok. Clearly the Canadian Pension Plan needs a new set of managers. Shame on @evansolomon.bsky.social and François-Philippe Champagne. #xAI #Grok #AI www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/n...
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- Fossil fuel execs are first in line to earn billions from the U.S. invasion of Venezuela? But without their financiers - big banks - none of this would be possible. They've financed war-profiting oil companies to the tune of $124 billion since 2021. Let’s follow the money. 💰 #Venezuela #greensky
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- Breaking Scotiabank CEO rejoices at the illegal invasion of #Venezuela for oil and the rightward change of governments in Latin America. "#Trump doctrine is good for business! " GREED IS GOOD it seems. Abhorrent comments from the CEO of one Canada's largest corporations. #teamcanada
- Reposted by Richard BrooksMy statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.
- You know what doesn't start wars and cause coups d'etat and invasions? The Sun and the Wind. #Venezuela
- The Canadian Minister of the Environment, yes Environment not the Minister of Oil, just cancelled the federal ban on the export of single use #plastics - the latest backward step for the @mark-carney.bsky.social govt. Shameful @juliedabrusin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
- @thestar.com's Allan Woods looks at Carney's meteoric rise from climate truthsayer to oil pipeline proponent. I was happy to share with my thoughts and how my view of him has changed along the way. Stand.earth #greensky www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
- "BlackRock may have avoided receiving its inevitable lump of coal, but they are still number one on the climate naughty list." NYCERS pension board trustees tabled outgoing-Comptroller Brad Lander’s proposal to rebid a $40+ billion contract with #BlackRock #greensky stand.earth/press-releas...
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- What does one say to the BC premier who is whining & complaining about the courts upholding Indigenous rights and title and UNDRIP because these threaten his baby resource projects. Cry me an atmospheric river @eby-david.bsky.social. The laws are the laws. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- Breaking: Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs write to 40+ banks, pensions & credit agencies calling on them to not finance or invest in Ksi Lisims #LNG project in BC, Canada - warn of financial, legal and environmental risks. Letter endorsed by 125 NGOs. #greensky www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
- Full letter to potential investors and financiers including the list of endorsing organizations from around the world is here: #lng #greensky #climate www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/letter-...
- Good news on the financing of fossil fuel front for a change. Thoughtful leadership from the UK government which has determined Mozambique LNG, led by Total Energies, is just too risky. [Murders and soldiers will do that to a project]. Time for the rest of the public and private banks to follow.
- Breaking: Canadian Prime Minister and Alberta Premier sign deal that will quash Indigenous rights, provoke a wave of backlash and opposition unlike anything every seen in Canada, and roll back big climate protections to benefit a handful of foreign owned oil and gas companies. #oil #cdnpoli
- Pipeline grand bargain MOU signed today by @mark-carney.bsky.social is a betrayal on climate, on our obligation to First Nations and to our children. 4 companies will benefit the most: Suncor, CNRL, Imperial Oil and Cenovus. All majority foreign owned. How do Canadian taxpayers feel about that?
- New York City's Comptroller recommends ending $42 billion in business with #Blackrock and rather than be professional, the world's largest asset manager says "don't let the door hit you on the way out." This is what they think of the trustees of NYC pension boards. www.blackrock.com/corporate/ne...
- It's not every day, you get really close to seeing $42 billion move from the world's largest asset manager because of their lack of credible climate action. Blackrock, which manages more than $12 trillion, has repeatedly failed to take climate change seriously. finance.yahoo.com/news/nyc-com...
- Images from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's definition of #TeamCanada. Smith has accused BC Premier David Eby of not being part of Team Canada because he respects the adamant position of First Nations to uphold a oil tanker ban on the North Coast. #Trump #oil #abpoli #cdnpoli #greensky
- Alberta Premier makes "Team Canada" accusations to BC Premier for opposing a dirty pipeline thru the Great Bear Rainforest, oil tankers on the coast. Where was her Team Canada sense when she hung with Trump in Florida with his 51st state of Canada talk? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- Any attempt by @mark-carney.bsky.social to build a pipeline to move the dirtiest oil through one of the most ecologically fragile places will be met with opposition that will make the Trans Mountain and Keystone XL protests look like a kid’s birthday party. #greensky stand.earth/press-releas...
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- This is what my gas powered AI generated when I asked it to make me a photo of Prime Minister @Mark-Carney.bsky.social as a Wizard. Because naming Ksi Lisims LNG a project of national interest is just fantastical financial nonsense and illusion. And during #COP30 to top it off. What a show! #lng
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- Reposted by Richard Brooks💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks. Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
- I just signed this petition with Stand.earth: Call on banks to stop fueling Amazon destruction at act.stand.earth/page/54896/p...
- @theecologist.org digs into which banks are financing destructive oil and gas financing in the Amazon in the lead up to #COP30. $2+ billion in new financing deals since 2024 to expand fossil fuels in one of the most critical ecosystems on the planet. #greensky theecologist.org/2025/oct/23/...
- Breaking: Big banks have inked $2billion of oil and gas financing deals in the Amazon since the beginning of 2024. Particularly heinous in the lead up to the first global climate summit in the Amazon - #COP30. Ffind out the banks taking action and those lagging behind banksvstheamazon.org/banks/
