Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks is the Climate Finance Director at Stand.earth where he heads a team working to reform the financial sector with a particular focus on banks and pension funds. Stand.earth coordinates the Climate Safe Pensions Network and manages the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Database used by asset managers, journalists, researchers, campaigners and financial analysts around the world. Prior, he led 350.org’s US divestment and climate finance work including the successful DivestNY campaign. Richard’s work has been quoted in Bloomberg, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, CBC, Guardian, Associated Press and Reuters amongst others.

Richard has 25+ years of experience setting up, running and winning campaigns involving multinational corporations and governments on issues from deforestation to climate change with 350.org, Greenpeace and others. He holds a Masters degree in Forestry from the University of Toronto and has been recognized as a Top 50 ESG Influencer by Onalytica and named to the Clean 50 Sustainability Leaders and RISI Power 50 lists. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his family.