Patrick DeRochie
About Patrick DeRochie
Patrick DeRochie is pension engagement manager with Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, a charitable project helping pension beneficiaries to engage constructively with their pensions on the climate crisis.
Breaking down Ontario Teachers’ 2050 net-zero emissions promise
With no clear definition for what net-zero means or how it will alter investment decisions, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan commitment runs the risk of becoming a cynical example of greenwashing, write Patrick DeRochie and Adam Scott.
Time is now for Canada’s public pension giants to invest in a safe climate future
How pension funds invest our retirement savings is a major factor in how quickly we transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Canada Pension Plan fuels the climate crisis with our own retirement savings
Why is the Canada Pension Plan pouring billions of our retirement savings into oil, gas and coal companies that are incompatible with a safe climate?
Time to stand up to the oil industry’s “competitiveness” fear-mongering
The incessant grumbling from Canada’s oil industry—on pipelines, environmental reviews, carbon pricing and competitiveness—is obscuring the obvious.
OPINION: Put facts before politics in modernizing NEB process
An environmentalist opposes a recommendation that cabinet determine whether a proposed pipeline is in the "national interest" before a technical project review and environmental assessment.