Big Banks ditch third-party proxy voting advisors, and new SEC guidance muzzles smaller investors. We'll look at how responsible investors are responding to these developments. Then Kate Finn, founder and Executive Director of the Tallgrass Institute, joins us to discuss how her organization uses investment strategies to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples - and how other investors can do the same. Visit www.ucfunds.org

The fight over New York City's pension funds takes a new turn, China establishes a corporate climate reporting standard, and there's some positive news about net-zero targets worldwide. Then Kees Gootjes, Executive Director of De Nieuwe Beurskoers, explains how his Dutch organization is working with faith-based organizations in the Netherlands and across the globe to encourage companies to conduct business in a humane and sustainable way. Learn more at https://denieuwebeurskoers.nl.

For further reading, check out The World's First Stock Exchange by Lodewijk Petram.

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G20 Leaders strengthen their commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement… in defiance of Donald Trump. But it's a different story at the COP 30 UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up without a strong result. Then Timothy Smith, Senior Policy Advisor at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), joins us to talk about his 50-plus-year fight to hold corporations accountable in their treatment of workers, society and the planet.

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