Recording now available! Is Your Healthcare Pension Healthy for the Planet?
Sep
19

Recording now available! Is Your Healthcare Pension Healthy for the Planet?

The climate crisis is the greatest health threat we face. Are healthcare pensions part of the problem, or part of the solution?

In this webinar, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health will explain how healthcare pensions invest your retirement savings, why your pension is a powerful lever for climate action, and what you can do to ensure that the money you put into your pension is working for the good of the planet and your retirement.

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Recording now available! Canadian Pension Climate Report Card: How does your pension stack up?
Apr
4

Recording now available! Canadian Pension Climate Report Card: How does your pension stack up?

Join Shift on April 4th at 1pm Eastern to hear the key findings from our second annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card. Find out where Canadian pension funds are falling short on climate, how your pension stacks up, and what actions pension funds still need to take to protect beneficiaries’ retirement security and the climate.

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Recording now available! Where is the Money? Investment and divestment considerations for healthcare workers, associations, and foundations
Oct
19

Recording now available! Where is the Money? Investment and divestment considerations for healthcare workers, associations, and foundations

Join CASCADES and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care for a panel discussion of perspectives on finance, climate, and the health sector.

Pension plans, hospital foundations, and professional associations are just some of the ways that people and organizations in the health sector face decisions around financial investments. Hear from speakers (including Shift) about how these investment decisions can account for climate risk and promote climate action.

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Recording now available! Protecting our Pensions & the Planet: Info-Session with For Our Kids
Oct
12

Recording now available! Protecting our Pensions & the Planet: Info-Session with For Our Kids

Join For Our Kids for a 1-hour info-session with Shift Action to learn more about how Canada's largest pension plans, including the Canada Pension Plan, continue to risk our retirement savings on fossil fuels despite the worsening global climate crisis. Learn how we can engage our pension funds to protect our pensions and our planet by investing in a just and liveable future.

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Did you miss the webinar? Watch the recording for Canadian Pensions and the Climate Crisis: How does your pension stack up?
Aug
1
to Sep 5

Did you miss the webinar? Watch the recording for Canadian Pensions and the Climate Crisis: How does your pension stack up?

Watch the webinar recording to hear the key findings from our inaugural Canadian Climate Pension Report Card. Find out where Canadian pension funds are falling short on climate, how your pension stacks up, and what actions pension funds still need to take to protect beneficiaries’ retirement security and the climate.

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Climate Finance in Canada - with Climate Legacy and the Group of 78
Apr
25

Climate Finance in Canada - with Climate Legacy and the Group of 78

Canadians with bank accounts, pension funds and/or insurance policies all have a vested interest in aligning the financial system with climate safety. Join Shift at an online workshop hosted by Climate Legacy and the Group of 78 to learn what financial actors are already doing, what more needs to be done, the role for regulation, and what you can do.

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Canadian Pensions and the Climate Crisis: How does your pension stack up?
Feb
8

Canadian Pensions and the Climate Crisis: How does your pension stack up?

Join Shift on February 8 at 12pm Eastern to hear the key findings from our inaugural Canadian Climate Pension Report Card. Find out where Canadian pension funds are falling short on climate, how your pension stacks up, and what actions pension funds still need to take to protect beneficiaries’ retirement security and the climate.

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Nov
8

Is Your Healthcare Pension Aligned with Climate Safety?

Is Your Healthcare Pension Aligned with Climate Safety?

Join Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health in a free webinar for HOOPP members hosted by the Alliance for Healthier Communities, Tuesday November 8th from 12pm-1pm. Register here.

Your pension savings can contribute to or help reduce climate change and its harmful impacts on health equity.

We all deserve a healthy environment and an ecological system that supports and sustains our health. Yet the impacts of the climate crisis are exacerbating health inequities. Migrant agricultural workers toil through heatwaves; senior citizens swelter in long-term care facilities without air conditioning; and people experiencing homelessness suffer devastating losses when heavy rains and flooding damage their possessions.

As health and community workers respond to these impacts, they’ll want to consider one often overlooked lever for climate action: how their retirement savings are invested. Is the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) investing your retirement savings in a way that worsens the climate crisis and its inequitable impacts?

Understanding how your pension dollars are invested is part of understanding how you can take action to support ecological health equity. Join climate and finance experts from Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health to learn:

  • The risks the climate crisis poses to pension funds and retirement savings

  • An overview of HOOPP’s approach to the climate crisis, including its investments in fossil fuels

  • What you can do to engage with HOOPP on the climate crisis.

Register here and join us on November 8th at 12pm for this free webinar.

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Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis
Jun
9

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis

Join healthcare workers across Ontario and climate and energy experts from Shift to learn how you can help protect your pension and tackle the climate crisis.

The Community Health Climate Action Initiative and Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health are hosting this free online workshop for working and retired members of HOOPP. Learn about your pension fund’s approach to the financial risks of climate change and fossil fuel investments, and what it means for your retirement savings.

Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-healthcare-of-ontario-pension-plan-and-the-climate-crisis-tickets-148086531803

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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis
May
5

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis

Join working and retired teachers from across Ontario to learn how you can help protect your pension and tackle the climate crisis.

This is the second of two identical workshops Shift is hosting for members of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to learn about your pension fund’s approach to the financial risks of climate change and fossil fuel investments, and what it means for your retirement savings.

Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-ontario-teachers-pension-plan-and-the-climate-crisis-tickets-148065474821

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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis
Apr
28

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan & the Climate Crisis

Join working and retired teachers from across Ontario to learn how you can help protect your pension and tackle the climate crisis.

This is the first of two identical workshops Shift is hosting for members of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to learn about your pension fund’s approach to the financial risks of climate change and fossil fuel investments, and what it means for your retirement savings.

Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-ontario-teachers-pension-plan-and-the-climate-crisis-tickets-146483487053

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Webinar: Your Retirement is at Risk from Climate Change.
Feb
4

Webinar: Your Retirement is at Risk from Climate Change.

As part of the launch of our upcoming report, Shift’s Director, Adam Scott, and Pension Engagement Manager, Patrick DeRochie, will discuss how your pension is at risk from climate change, how your pension is adding to the climate crisis and what you, as a beneficiary, can do to support your fund through the necessary transition.

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