We’re on global red alert: from the Amazon to the Congo Basin,
megafires are turning the world’s forests to ash at record
speed.
An area the size of Panama has already been scorched at a
staggering rate of 18 football fields per
minute. Scientists are warning that if we don’t buck
the trend fast, our most precious natural carbon sinks could
be permanently destroyed, triggering climate chaos and
misery for millions.
Yet the worst offenders behind this destruction – a rotten,
predatory financial industry that's poured an astounding $6 trillion
into dirty fossil fuel companies driving deforestation in the last
few years alone – are flying completely under the radar. Their
profits are even soaring!
Together, we could change that. The world’s most
important climate summit is just months away so we have a
golden opportunity to turn up the heat on bank execs and politicians
while all eyes are on them!
We have a crack team ready to unleash a wave of winning tactics
like: filing complaints with financial regulators around the world,
launching smart legal strategies, and ramping up our campaigns in
the media to expose these big banks.
Let’s make the next few months a turning point for the
planet. Can you help stop climate criminals from destroying
the world?
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Scientists are freaking out: they haven’t seen fires like this in
decades. But it hasn’t come out of the blue – years of
punishing drought and scorching heatwaves driven by global heating
have pushed our iconic forests into crisis.
Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Bank of America are carrying
on with business as usual: pumping billions every year into dirty
energy projects, even though these banks pledged to drastically
reduce their emissions. The companies that they generously provide
with loans, investments and insurance cause 80 percent of total
greenhouse gas emissions.
If banks simply stopped financing fossil fuels, it would be a
real reset for the global economy – and for the fight against
climate change.
But right now, the financial incentives are all wrong. We
need to force banks and insurers to rethink and recalculate how they
do business. Together, we could make this happen if we have enough
funds to tackle the enormous work ahead of us like:
- Filing complaints with financial regulators
around the world to rein in toxic big banks;
- Making these CEOs famous for their role in
climate chaos, hounding them at public appearances and
splashing their faces on billboards and in the media;
- Pushing governments to pass new laws and
regulations to close loopholes and make fossil fuel projects
too expensive and too difficult to bankroll;
- Organising employees of targeted banks and
insurers to oppose their companies’ policies from the inside;
and more!
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Your donation will help power Ekō
and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the
planet.
These companies are at the root of
the climate crisis – and countless other tragedies that impact us
all. If we’re going to save the planet, we’ll have to change the way
they do business fast.
Together we convinced insurance
giant AIG to stop underwriting a disastrous, climate-wrecking coal
mine near the Great Barrier Reef. With your help now, we can take on
the biggest players of the financial industry and win again.
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