Vladimir,
They’re calling it a "heat apocalypse" – Europe
is literally melting, with roads and runways turning into warped
globs of sticky, hot tar. The UK just suffered through its hottest
day in history. Arctic permafrost is melting 43x
faster than before.
This is not normal. Climate change is destroying
our planet already – and yet somehow keeps accelerating.
But the worst offenders behind it – a rotten,
predatory financial sector that has poured an unbelievable $4.6
trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris agreement
– are flying completely under the radar.
We’re going to change that.
SumOfUs has a plan to build a crack team of campaigners and
investigators to expose the financial industry’s responsibility for
this emergency, then run massive campaigns in the media and with
shareholders to force them to change. We’ll shine the spotlight on
these giants like never before. It could be a turning point for the
planet, but we can’t do it without your help. Will you chip
in to hold the worst climate criminals to account?
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Scientists are losing it, saying “We’ve never seen anything like
this.” But household names like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and
Bank of America just carry on with business as usual. The
$4.6 trillion they’ve given since 2016 is since they promised to
pursue net-zero.
The companies they shower with loans, investment, and insurance
are responsible for 71% of all greenhouse gas
emissions. If the banks just defunded fossil fuels, it
could literally reset our global economy – and the fight against
climate change.
But right now, in anonymity, the financial incentives are all
wrong. We need to change the calculation, by making these
banks as famous for fuelling climate chaos as they are for
plastering their names all over sports stadiums. Here’s how
we’ll do it:
- Build a team of expert climate defenders to
run mega-campaigns that expose the worst offenders;
- Make the CEOs famous for their role in climate
destruction, hounding them at public appearances and
splashing their faces on billboards and in the media;
- Organise 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 favour of the planet.
These banks are the root of the climate crisis. If we’re going to
save the planet, this has to work.
And we know it can because we’ve done it before,
convincing insurance giant AIG to end its underwriting of a
disastrous, climate-wrecking coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef.
Time to do it again – and again.
Will you chip in to fund this plan to take on the big
banks wrecking our climate?
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The 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 help make it happen.
