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Episode 4: Financing, Fundraising, Moving

Listen to episode 4 of the "Imagining Tomorrow" podcast with presenter Emma Newman about how to make sure our savings aren't used in climate-wrecking projects.
  Published:  05 Mar 2024    |      1 minute read

Episode description

When the average person can’t control how the funds in their own bank accounts or pensions are used by institutions, is there any way to stop terrible things being done with our money? 

Inspired by conversations with the leader of a grassroots movement empowering women to take control of their finances, a community farm in Wales raising funds to keep the farm in the service of the local people it feeds, and an award-winning science fiction writer, Emma Newman imagines a world in which fossil fuel companies are starved of funds and ethical companies are able to thrive thanks to sensible, sustainable community investment.

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Resources

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Additional resources related to the episode

The Tydden Teg Community Share offer document

Report by Urgewald on World Bank Trade Finance (PDF)

Latest article about UK pension fund investment in the climate crisis by Friends of the Earth

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Article by the Experiments Team at Friends of the Earth on the origin of Money Movers

Climate Town video on banks financing fossil fuel projects