R_BrooksStand Profile Banner
Richard Brooks ☀️ Profile
Richard Brooks ☀️

@R_BrooksStand

Followers
3K
Following
14K
Media
1K
Statuses
13K

Climate Finance Director @Standearth Fighting #ClimateChange, challenging #fossilfuel companies #Divestment & #ClimateFinance @richardbrooks.bsky.social

Joined July 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 years
Wet'suwet'en chiefs lead march to @RBC headquarters to confront Canada's largest fossil bank for their role in financing the rights violating @CoastalGasLink fracked gas pipeline. Joined by hundreds of supporters. #DefundClimateChaos #nomoredirtybanks
61
373
1K
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
27 days
BREAKING! Banks poured a staggering $869 BILLION into fossil fuels in 2024. The new #BankingOnClimateChaos report is out. It's not good. During the hottest year on record, banks increased their financing of coal, oil and gas. Its unconscionable. Read:
Tweet media one
0
8
11
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
The Competition Act is meant to protect consumers from misleading environmental claims. After @RBC admitted there were problems with their Sustainable Finance numbers, lawyers sent a letter today to the @CompBureau urging it to act. @MarkJCarney.
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
Competition law experts weigh in on @RBC abandoning its so-called Sustainable Finance target and climate disclosures and blaming the Competition Act. I believe the experts. #cdnpoli #greenwashing.
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
What's one of the world's top global bankers who understands climate change and is now Prime Minister of Canada to do when the country's biggest bank backtracks on climate action?. My take in @RicochetMedia. What do you think @MarkJCarney?. #cdnpoli.
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
RT @PriceofOil: Japanese and Alaskan climate advocates are coming together to tell Prime Minister Ishiba to refuse pressure to invest in Tr….
0
19
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
RT @standearth: Na semana passada, a @LadyGaga iluminou a praia de Copacabana, no Rio, com um show gratuito. Mas o que realmente tem por tr….
0
3
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
University of Guelph is one of the more than 1600 institutions that have committed to divest from fossil fuels. The full list can be found in the database below maintained by @standearth . ➡️
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
Good climate news! My alma mater the University of Guelph @uofg implemented their fossil fuel divestment commitment fully & on schedule. Netting a 74% decrease in portfolio emissions intensity!. #energy .
1
2
3
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
2 months
Remember when banks were scrambling to respond to climate activist pressure. In Feb 2021, Royal Bank of Canada announced they would put $500 billion into Sustainable Finance by 2025. Yesterday they abandoned that goal. Oh the good 'ol days.
Tweet media one
1
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 months
Canada's biggest bank Royal Bank has abandoned its sustainable finance targets and further walked back its climate commitments. Ball is now in Prime Minister @MarkJCarney's court to regulate and incentivize them into action. #Election2025.
0
0
1
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 months
Money talks - @NYCComptroller puts billions of business they do with Blackrock on the line, in an attempt to get the world's largest asset managers to stop backsliding on climate action. Because we can't fight the climate crisis without them. Good on him.
Tweet media one
0
7
12
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 months
Because we live in a dystopian time, it makes sense to plant sequoias in abandoned Detroit lots. Maybe a glimmer of something positive here? Or just confirmation that we're so f&cked?. Happy Earth Day. #EarthDay.
1
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 months
Royal Bank of Canada annual shareholder meeting today with the delegation who went in and supporters to challenge the bank about their fossil fuel financing record and their lack of adequate climate action. RBC is a massive financier of tar sands and #LNG expansion projects.
Tweet media one
3
16
18
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
3 months
The ever persistent @Woodsideful w/ @NatObserver continuing to dig into where Canadian taxpayer dollars have been buried in the #Transmountain tar sands pipeline boondoggle. Worth the read. Trigger warning: you will be angry. #cdnpoli #Election2025.
0
1
1
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
5 months
Breaking: Final grades are in for the USA's public pensions and their voting records and proxy guidelines. Many pensions are failing, ignoring their shareholder power and voting against climate action. Time to go back to school and shape up!. 📖 Report:
Tweet media one
0
2
6
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
6 months
.@UN chief @antonioguterres calls out banks quitting #climate initiatives, financing fossil fuels: . "You are on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of science and the wrong side of consumers who are looking for more sustainability, not less”. #esg.
1
9
19
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
6 months
RT @weareyellowdot: "It should not continuously fall on us to address the consequences of big oil’s negligence. They must take responsibili….
0
142
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
6 months
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Tweet media one
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
6 months
Ones got to wonder a bit with all the talk about the need for a unified #TeamCanada how it looks that these Canadian leaders of industry rush to join their US bank bros? .
0
0
0
@R_BrooksStand
Richard Brooks ☀️
6 months
But now at least these big fossil fuels in financing banks lose some of their greenwashing cover. They fooled investors for 3+ years and join their US bank brethren in revealing their true climate colors. #netzero #esg .
1
0
0