An essential overview of the important issues regarding finance and climate change.
About this event
Learn where and how your pension, investment, and banking money is being spent, too often in violation of the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
Importantly, find out how you can take control of your hard-earned money to fund a just, sustainable future.
SPEAKERS
Patrick DeRochie is Senior Manager at Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health. He has wide-ranging experience in climate and energy policy, campaigning, and government relations. At Shift, he is focused on analyzing the fossil fuel and climate-related investments of Canadian pension funds and building a network of pension beneficiaries to invest their savings in a zero-carbon future. Previously, Patrick was Climate and Energy Program Manager with Environmental Defence and Political Organizer with one of Canada’s largest healthcare unions. Patrick has been deeply involved in developing federal and provincial climate and energy policy and acts as a regular commentator in national media.
Tim Nash is Founder of Good Investing, an investment planning firm with a focus on sustainable investing. Tim's blog The Sustainable Economist has inspired thousands of Canadians to invest according to their values with model portfolios to reflect different definitions of sustainable investing. Tim writes a bi-weekly column for The Toronto Star, and is regularly featured in publications such as CBC’s The National, BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call, and the Globe and Mail.
Dr. Myrtle D. Millares is a co-founder of Climate Pledge Collective. She has overseen and executed such education and outreach projects as city-wide climate picnics; print, radio, and podcast ads; the BankSwitch campaign; and is working collaboratively with grassroots groups on fossil fuel divestment projects that forefront climate justice. As a music educator and researcher she specializes in narrative inquiry and popular music pedagogy (in hip-hop communities of practice) as a means to de-colonize and forward anti-racist practices.
Panel on Free, Prior & Informed Consent
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Kúkpi7 Judy Wilson is the Secretary-Treasurer of Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Chief Wilson has served her community for ten years as chief and eight years as a council member. She is a strong advocate for recognition of inherent title and rights and self-determination and for the fundamental shifts needed for the survival of all Peoples. In addition, Chief Wilson is currently a member of the following boards and committees: the First Nations Leadership Council, the Assembly of First Nations Comprehensive Claims Policy Committee, the BC Specific Claims Working Group, the BC Small Business Roundtable, the Secwepemc Chiefs Health Caucus, the Rural BC/Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition, and several other community-based committees.
Kayah George 'Halth-Leah' is the Divestment Campaign Lead at Indigenous Climate Action. She proudly carries the teachings of her Tulalip and Tsleil-Waututh Nations which have inspired her to become a young Indigenous and environmental leader, scholar, and activist. She has talked globally about climate justice and spread the teachings of her nations to honour and care for the earth while being a student at Simon Fraser University. Kayah has been working closely with allied organizations and is building capacity for an Indigenous-led divestment movement. Most recently Kayah spoke about the Trans Mountain pipeline and the importance of upholding UNDRIP and FPIC at the Deadline Glasgow Campaign. Check out her powerful words here: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/glasgow/
Eugene Kung is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW. He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project. Prior to joining West Coast, Eugene was a staff lawyer with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) where he had a social justice law practice in the areas of Constitutional, Human Rights, Administrative, Anti-Poverty and Regulatory law. He has also worked on Constitutional law cases involving access to housing, water, education and a healthy environment.