Expanding our finance work

Last week, we launched our first Conscious Capital course on the links between personal finance, social justice, and environmental security at UCT. More than 80 people attended the launch event (see pic above).

A hybrid four-session course, Conscious Capital is exploring how to manage our money and become more financially secure in ways that also support the prosperity of others. It’s the latest project in our expanded climate finance campaign, now called Future We Want because redirecting financial flows is essential for creating this future.

While the launch event was full, you can still express your interest the second to following sessions here – they will take place online – and we hope to run another course when the first is finished. We shall you posted.

We’ve also expanded our shareholder activism: in recent months we have filed resolutions at the AGMs of Sasol, Momentum Metropolitan and Coronation for greater climate transparency to shareholders and for the provision of fossil-fuel free funds.

Our campaigners also held in-person engagements with Coronation and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, as we like to do submitting resolutions.

And we’ve joined Just Share and asset manager Aeon Investment Management in their legal action against Thungela over its dismissal of requests we’ve been making for years that it invite its shareholders to vote on critical climate issues. “It is important for everyone to care about how the climate crisis is affecting their finances and their future. It is crucial to hold asset managers accountable, as they do hold power - and should be agents of change who take a stand and ultimately do the right thing.”