📣 Today Shift joined 40 other national organizations to stand in solidarity with Coastal First Nations who oppose a crude oil pipeline and tankers project on the north coast of British Columbia. Read the letter here: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/26/4... #cdnpoli #bcpoli

🚨 Reminder to register for our webinar tomorrow! Join us on November 25 at 1 pm EST / 10am PST for a discussion on the landmark climate litigation launched by four young Canadians against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“If there isn’t a credible explanation for how Scope 3 emissions will be reduced… then from a risk perspective a company should be able to explain why they see a market for their products in a future if there are broad global commitments to a #netzero future” #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/scope-3-emis...

Join us on November 25 at 1 pm EST / 10am PST for a discussion on the landmark climate litigation launched by four young Canadians against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli #climaterisk Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

You don’t call climate change an "existential threat" and the "single biggest investment risk that we face", and then spend the next year pouring $7BN from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse. That’s reckless and absurd.” #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11...

The feds caving to industry will encourage polluting companies to #greenwash, harm companies that have invested in credible environmental efforts, and reduce investor certainty that companies are adequately managing climate-related financial risks. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Chris Turner: The global energy transition has become inevitable, but Canada is still straddling the gap between credible climate action and the fossil fuel status quo. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

New report from @investors4paris.bsky.social warns that Canada’s largest oil and gas companies could have tens of billions in undeclared environmental liabilities on their books: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Yesterday’s federal budget promised progress on “climate competitiveness” – but Canada’s financial system remains dangerously underprepared for the realities of the climate crisis. 🔗 Read the full joint statement from climate finance experts: www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11...

“If much of the rest of the world is in a state of prolonged recession or depression because of climate change, there is no way that Canada, on a GDP per capita basis, could really benefit," said researcher Timothy Neal. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...

Four young Canadians are taking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to court – saying it’s failing to manage climate risks while investing billions in fossil fuels.

“The future comes faster than you expect it to,” says 22-year-old Travis Olson. Find out why four young Canadians are taking legal action against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/n... #Climate #Pensions

💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan. They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli

🚨 Canada's pension fund (CPPIB) is bankrolling fossil gas expansion through VoltaGrid—one of its "Sustainable Energy" portfolio companies. They're powering AI data centres with gas and calling it "low-emission." 🧵

Quebec’s pension manager has seen its renewable assets perform twice as well as the oil component of the MSCI ACWI energy index over the last five years. 📈 🔗 Read more: www.businesstimes.com.sg/wealth/wealt...

⚠️ The climate crisis is causing us all to re-think the very idea of retirement.

🌏Shift's director Adam Scott tells the Wall Street Journal that recent climate policy reversals contradict almost a decade of Mark Carney's climate advocacy. 🔗https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mark-carneys-shift-from-climate-change-warrior-to-fossil-fuel-cheerleader-97d17782 (paywalled)

📉 This week’s Canada Pension Plan climate update: CPPIB is still pouring billions into fossil fuels—despite a year of record heat. Let’s break it down. 🧵

👋 Come say hi! Shift’s Senior Manager Laura McGrath will be speaking about climate change and healthcare pensions this Friday during Toronto Climate Week. greenhealthcare.ca/tocw-2025/ #TorontoClimateWeek #planetaryhealth

⚡ Quebec's pension fund Le Caisse is acquiring Australia’s @Edify Energy for $1 billion. 🐨 Edify combines utility-scale solar generation with battery storage. 🏆 This is a smart financial play that will also accelerate the energy transition. 🔗Read more: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Highlights from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP)'s 2025 climate disclosures 👀 ✅ Progress toward 2026 targets ✅ More green assets ✅ Less exposure to carbon-intensive assets 🤨 5 board members with climate expertise–one also sits on Imperial Oil’s board. 🙄 🔗 PSP’s report

This summer of record wildfires and heat, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is doubling down on fossil fuels. Despite a mandate to manage Canadians’ retirement savings “without undue risk of loss,” it’s investing in assets tied to climate failure. #CPPIBWatch

The new Building Canada Act (in Bill C-5) gives Cabinet power to fast-track projects they designate as serving the “national interest”.     Now, Cabinet will decide the criteria that a project must meet to be deemed in the "national interest".

🚨 Data centres want to connect up to 2.5 gigawatts (GW) of new fossil fuel capacity to the UK’s's gas transmission network– which is 28% owned by BC’s public pension manager. www.ft.com/content/7540...

1/ Canadians might be angry to learn that an LNG terminal in Louisiana backed by $100 million from the Canada Pension Plan has been approved, “advancing President Trump’s energy dominance agenda.” #cdnpoli #uspolitics #LNG www.offshore-technology.com/news/us-doe-...

“Many of Canada’s largest pensions are sleepwalking into a #climatecrisis with existential consequences for their members. The Chief Actuary needs to do its job by ensuring its statutory actuarial valuations of federal plans and programs actually reflect the reality of these risks.” #cdnpoli

The Office of the Chief Actuary is severely underestimating the systemic financial risks of climate change to pension plans and failing to assess the cascading economic and financial impacts of a rapidly warming world. Read our letter to the OCA. #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/8/...

Last week, OMERS participated in another round of investment for Group14, which manufactures silicon battery material for use in electric vehicles and consumer electronics. #onpoli #cdnpoli www.koreaherald.com/article/1055... 💲 OMERS has committed to reach $30 billion in green investments by 2030.

1/ The feds will soon name new directors to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli Our $732bn pension is still fossil-entangled. 3 of 10 directors are tied to oil & gas companies. Canadians need climate experts– not #fossilfuel interests– on the board. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Amidst another summer of heatwaves, droughts & wildfires, CPPIB made a bizarre decision to profile its investment in an oil & gas company whose business model is fundamentally incompatible with the long-term retirement security of Canadians. #cdnpoli #fossilfuels www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/8/...

🛢 As Canadians swelter through another summer of heatwaves, drought and wildfires, the Canada Pension Plan is investing our money in the #fossilfuels driving the #climatecrisis. 📜 Check out our new summary breaking down CPP's private fossil fuel assets. #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/cppib-fossil...

“His book warns that new investments in fossil infrastructure risk becoming ‘stranded assets’” - Shawn McCarthy’s op-ed in The Hill Times tries to remind the prime minister of what he wrote in his book Value(s). Read the op-ed here: www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Canadian pension funds are already using the ‪Science-Based Targets initiative to inform their climate strategies. Will they hold themselves to the new SBTi standard for financial institutions- which calls for an end to financing #fossilfuel expansion? #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/81...

⚠️ The federal government’s rush to approve infrastructure projects is alienating Indigenous nations. ⚡ But Indigenous nations have been willing partners on 600 clean energy projects across Canada. 🔗 From James Jenkins at Indigenous Clean Energy:

The insurance industry is sounding the alarm about the growing financial risks of the #climatecrisis, with big implications for pension funds. If we fail to limit global heating to safe levels, it could become impossible for pensions to fulfill their mandate. #cdnpoli

As BC healthcare workers, we demand that the Municipal Pension Plan stop risking our retirement savings on the oil, gas and coal companies that are harming our health and fueling the climate crisis, write Agnes Black, Caroline Murphy and Betty Tate www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/12/o...

🧑‍⚖️ The International Court of Justice has ruled that countries that continue to support fossil fuel production could be ordered to pay billions in compensation. 🏝️ Low-lying island nations have warned that their existence is in jeopardy due to rising sea levels. 🔗Read @carbonbrief.org's explainer

📉 This week’s Canada Pension Plan Climate Update: CPPIB (@cppinvestments) continues to back companies harming the planet – and risking our pensions. Recent scandals show CPPIB’s ESG claims aren’t holding up. 🧵 #ClimateFinance #Pensions

Ontario's University Pension Plan is following through on its Climate Stewardship Plan commitments. Last week the fund announced it was filing a shareholder proposal at Alimentation Couche-Tard, a QC-based company operating 16,000+ convenience stores, demanding a credible emissions reduction plan.

Healthcare organizations are breaking ties with fossil fuels and the companies that do business with them. Healthcare pensions, take note! #cdnpoli #onpoli #ONhealth @cape-acme.bsky.social @rnao.ca

✨ Energized after a powerful few days at our Shift team offsite in Ottawa! Grateful for the space to reflect, align, and think big–from Bill C-5 to Indigenous rights to reimagining our Pension Climate Report Card. We’re leaving focused, inspired, and ready for what’s next. 🚀🌍

Following its #divestment of fossil fuel producers, the New York City #pensions system is more than doubling its target for investments in climate solutions and developing a policy to exclude midstream and downstream fossil fuel infrastructure. #nyleg

Fossil fuel companies, inc. Enbridge, reportedly pressured @sciencebasedtargets.org (SBTi) to pause its #netzero standard for the oil & gas industry. Why? B/c a safe climate requires an end to oil & gas expansion, but the oil & gas industry won’t accept this. #climaterisk #cdnpoli

🔍 BCI just released its 2024–25 Annual Report. While there are bright spots, BC’s $233B pension manager still refuses to commit to net-zero by 2050 — putting 778K members’ retirement security at climate risk. 🔗 Full analysis: www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/7/...

🚨 The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is warning that economic models commonly used by pension funds, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, massively underestimate the likely damage to investment portfolios from climate change and its impacts. #cdnpoli #climaterisk

In AIMCo's 2024 annual report, the word “climate” doesn’t appear once. That’s a red flag. Every major Canadian pension fund has recognized climate change as a financial risk—AIMCo now seems to be backing away from that basic fact. 🧵

📉 CPP Investments funds both progress and pollution. In 2023, CPPIB invested $500M in Octopus Energy — the UK’s top renewable supplier. But it's also backing Quantum Capital, whose oil & gas operations cause $2.5 billion a year in U.S. health damages. www.cppinvestments.com/insight-inst...

🔥Canada is in the midst of one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in recent decades. Smoke from the Prairies has prompted air quality warnings in Ontario and Quebec, thousands of kilometres away.

When we brought a climate proposal to Brookfield’s AGM in June, only one Canadian pension fund voted for it. The rest backed greenwash and gas. Here’s what happened—and why it matters. ⬇️

ICYMI: Just before the long weekend, Shift released a new report on fossil fuel entanglements at Canada’s public pension funds. 🛢️ 30% of @cppinvestments board members have fossil fuel ties 🛢️ 5 of 11 major pension funds include oil & gas directors 🔗 www.shiftaction.ca/entrenched-i...