Specialized banking can help overcome the early-stage funding challenges that many clean technologies face and can help showcase financial partners' roles in climate solutions. These collaborations are critical to supporting the innovation needed to help address the climate crisis.
From injured workers to racialized communities, women to LGBTQ+ groups, protest has historically driven government action and policy towards social change. For many, protest is the only means by which they have access to key decision-makers.
As climate change accelerates, so too do the number of environmental crises non-profits respond to. Rethinking the charitable sector’s role in prevention could change that.
Climate appears to be a non-issue in this federal campaign. However, the U.S. President's trade war with Canada drives the need to build a distinctive and resilient economy. The climate crisis and its domino effects compromise this resilience. It costs communities millions of dollars in damage from floods, fires and droughts. Will climate finance be forthcoming? What can adaptation and climate mitigation project owners expect?
Charities nationwide are helping mining exploration companies raise more money by promoting and accepting flow-through share donations. Some say this is good for all. Others say it’s making charities complicit in the exploration industry’s harm to First Nations and the environment.
