Scotiabank Doesn’t Just Fund Billions In Fossil Fuels – It Funds Anti-Climate Lobbying – Environmental Defence: among the big 5, Scotiabank stands out as funding anti-climate lobbying in Canada by being the only big bank that has an Associate Membership in the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).

We’ve written before about how CAPP lobbies against climate action in Canada, including trying to take advantage of COVID to advocate for environmental rollbacks. Even French oil giant Total withdrew from CAPP, citing a “misalignment” between the organization’s public positions and those of Total.

Scotiabank Doesn’t Just Fund Billions In Fossil Fuels – It Funds Anti-Climate Lobbying – Environmental Defence: among the big 5, Scotiabank stands out as funding anti-climate lobbying in Canada by being the only big bank that has an Associate Membership in the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).We’ve written before about how CAPP lobbies against climate action in Canada, including trying to take advantage of COVID to advocate for environmental rollbacks. Even French oil giant Total withdrew from CAPP, citing a “misalignment” between the organization’s public positions and those of Total.Read More