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Mark Carney’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance is done. Now what?

by Eugene Ellmen

The end of the global network could spell more bank financing of fossil fuels, or a more effective path for the energy

Fall 2025/Finance

Canada’s finance regulator says up to $1 trillion in lending could be unlocked

by Eugene Ellmen

Reforms would allow Canadian banks, insurers and pension funds to vastly increase financing to address the economic crisis

Finance/Summer 2025

How credit unions are pushing a just energy transition

by Rob Csernyik

For financial cooperatives, aka credit unions, reaching young people remains a challenge – and a huge opportunity

Finance

Banks reverse course and pour more money into fossil fuels

by Eugene Ellmen

Clean energy is poised to pull in double the financing as oil, gas and coal, but a new report shows that big

Finance/Summer 2024

How the Big Five banks are quietly squeezing billions out of Canadians

by Keldon Bester

As Canadians struggle under the rising cost of living, the margins collected by Canada's financial services heavyweights are expanding

Finance

RBC agrees to new measures on race, climate after pressure from investors and First Nations

by Eugene Ellmen

The moves come after weeks of negotiation with investors who supported Indigenous and Black leaders and their allies assembled at the bank’s

Finance

Four ways Canadian banks can actually deliver on their climate promises

by Matt Price and Kyra Bell-Pasht

Upcoming shareholder proposal vote asks TD to spell out their vague net-zero plans, but it’s not the only bank that needs a

Finance/Spring 2024

Canada’s Big Five banks keep moving further away from net-zero

by Eugene Ellmen

A new report from UK org InfluenceMap shows that rather than move towards net-zero like their US and EU counterparts, Canada's big

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Finance

Canada can’t finance the energy transition without getting tough on banks

by Matt Price

New report card concludes that banks “lack net zero urgency” and aren’t showing their cards when it comes to financed emissions

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