Last week Antarctica broke its record for highest-ever recorded
temperature. It was warm enough for shorts and
t-shirts.
Let that sink in. Our planet is sending us a grave warning, and
we need to listen.
People like you and me try to do our bit every day. Meanwhile, a
handful of corporations unleash carbon on an eye-watering scale --
just 100 companies are responsible for over
71% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
These
companies won’t change a thing as long as they’re making money. But
guess what: they rely on a tiny handful of banks to stay in
business. And some of these banks are getting cold feet
about investing their trillions in cooking the Earth.
If these banks defund fossil fuels, it could literally
reset our global economy and paint it green for generations
to come.
If you donate today, we can build a team of experts that
will expose the finance industry's responsibility for climate
chaos and force them to change. This could be the turning
point for our planet, but we simply can’t do it without your help
today.
You can make this plan a reality, Vladimir. Chip in $1 today to
hold the worst climate criminals to account.
Yes,
I'll chip $1 today to fight climate chaos.
The investment banks leading the world over the cliff of climate
catastrophe are household names -- JPMorgan Chase,
Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo -- but their ties
to the fossil fuel industry aren’t as well known.
If you help make these banks just as famous for fueling climate
chaos as they are for having their names plastered all over sports
stadiums, you can cause an investor uprising that will scare
these banks into ditching fossil fuels. Without help from
investment banks, new coal mines and fracking projects can’t get off
the ground.
Here’s how we’ll do it:
- Hire a squad of expert climate defenders and pair them
up with a stunt team that will hound executives from
these banks at public appearances
- Purchase smart ad buys in the influential financial
media outlets investors read every day to alert them to
how their money is funding the destruction of our climate
- Organize employees of targeted investment
banks to oppose their companies’ policies from the inside
- File shareholder resolutions around the world
to change the rules for investing in favor of the planet
This plan is ambitious and bold, I know. But ambitious and bold
is the only thing that will save life on Earth. And your support
today can make this plan a reality.
Will
you chip in $1 today to kickstart our campaign to end the financing
of the fossil fuel industry?
You can be confident this plan can work. Why? Because
SumOfUs members like you have played a decisive role in
victories for our climate using these proven tactics
before.
Thanks to your grassroots power and timely donations, you helped
delay the massive TransMountain pipeline in Canada
and convinced insurance giant AIG to end its underwriting of
a disastrous, climate-wrecking coal mine in Australia.
Your support today will kickstart a campaign to strike at
the root of our climate crisis: the dirty money
that’s recklessly funding new fossil fuel power plants and coal
mines around the world.
Chip
in $1 today to launch this new effort to expose the worst investment
banks ruining our climate.
