Learn how you can take action on the climate crisis while protecting your pension.
About this event
Hosted by climate and energy experts from Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, join working and retired staff from school boards across Ontario to learn how you can take action on the climate crisis while protecting your pension savings.
This is a free online workshop for working or retired staff of Ontario school boards who are members of OMERS, the $121 billion pension fund for 544,000 working and retired municipal employees.
This workshop will:
Inform school board staff about the urgency of the climate crisis;
Explain why the investment decisions of the $121 billion OMERS fund matter for the climate crisis;
Describe how your retirement savings are exposed to the climate-related financial risks of climate change;
Provide a summary of the progress OMERS is making in managing these risks, and an overview of its risky investments in fossil fuels and other high-carbon projects and companies;
Give you information about how to engage with your pension fundon climate.
Join us at 12:00pm, Wednesday, May 4 for this free hour-long workshop.
About Shift
Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health is a charitable initiative that works to protect pensions and the climate by bringing together beneficiaries and their pension funds to engage on the climate crisis. Shift is a project on MakeWay's shared platform, which provides operational supports, governance, and charitable expertise for changemakers.