April 4 IPCC report:

• MarketWatch: ‘They are lying. And the results will be catastrophic’: U.N. climate panel warns emissions pledges are not action
• Atmos: Yes, Colonialism Caused Climate Change, IPCC Reports
• Bloomberg: Money Pouring Into Fossil Fuels Risks Climate Disaster, UN Report Warns

Banking on Climate Chaos (BoCC) & Global Climate Exit List (GCEL):

• Financial Times: Global banks keep up pace with $742bn in fossil fuel finance despite climate pledges
• The Tyee: Canadian Banks Keep Financing Fossil Fuels
• CNN: Banks say they’re getting tough on coal, but they keep lending trillions to polluters
• Bloomberg: Bankers Still Stand Behind Dirtiest Fossil Fuel: Green Insight

Shareholder season (AGM):

• American Banker: Largest US banks to face shareholder votes on climate change
• Financial Times: New York State pension fund urges bank shareholders to back climate resolutions
• National Observer: ‘They pretend we don’t exist’: Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs insulted after RBC cancels in-person meeting last-minute
• The Record: Scotiabank’s climate plan and fossil fuel financing key focus at AGM
• Bloomberg: Canadian Banks’ Net-Zero Lending Ambitions Hit Snags in Oil-Rich Country

Russia/Ukraine war:

• The Washington Post: Big oil companies are using wartime profits to enrich investors, report says
• Quartz: The Ukraine crisis could impede banks from dropping fossil fuels
• WSJ: Russia’s Oil Industry, Linchpin of Economy, Feels Sting of Ukraine War Disruptions
• Bloomberg: Ukraine Seeks Russia Assets, Oil Fleet Seizure as Reparations 

Fossil fuel divestment:

• Real Change News: Inslee board appointees’ investments at odds with governor’s climate pledges
  National Catholic Reporter: Marquette University bars direct fossil fuel investments with its $929 million endowment
• Pensions & Investments: Chinese regulators call on institutional investors to play bigger role

Climate impacts:

• AP: UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
• ABC News: Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier
• GQ: The Razor’s Edge of A Warming World

Fossil fuel project fights:

• AP: East African oil pipeline hits the headwinds
• APTN News: Mounties spent $950K on winter operations for Coastal GasLink

Direct action:

• InsideClimate News: ‘Scientist Rebellion,’ Researchers Face Arrest for Climate Action

Op-eds:

• The Nation: Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
• Juneau Empire: Opinion: Bank needs to put money where mouth is on climate change

US Congress & Finance Agencies:

• Green Central Banking: Climate risks worse for financially vulnerable people, warns US bank regulator
• The New Republic: Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.
• The New Republic: Democrats Worried About Gas Prices Are Begging Oil Companies to Drill More