Shell, TotalEnergies, Repsol, Eni and OMV -
these are just a few of the dirty and polluting companies the
European Central Bank continues to finance against all scientific
imperatives.
As one of the least transparent central bank’s in the world,
it’s near impossible to hold it to account for its climate
and ecological negligence.
However, a window of opportunity has opened and it's a
real chance for you to actually have a say about the ECB’s
policies.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are meeting with ECB
executives, including Christine Lagarde next week— it's a very rare
opportunity for our democratic representatives in the European
Parliament to finally ask the difficult questions, review
the Bank’s performance and make our concerns heard above
the din fossil fuels lobbyists intent on spoiling our planet.
Ahead of the bank's meeting, MEPs need the weight of
people power behind them.
This survey is the occasion for MEPs to directly collect people’s
concerns and raise them during their discussion with the ECB on 20th
June.
MEPs
need to know what you care about – spend 3 minutes filling in the
survey and make your concerns heard.
TAKE
THE SURVEY
The ECB affects all our everyday lives and has the
potential to improve our financial system or, instead, reinforce its
failures. However, as an independent central bank it is
hardly ever held to account for its decisions - even the bad
ones.
And when it comes to the climate policy, the ECB executives have
been getting away with ecological murder by propping up and
investing some of the most polluting companies in the world -
corporations that have already pushed our climate to the brink.
That’s why this June these talks between the MEPs and the ECB
(Monetary Dialogues) are so vital: they are critical for us
- the people - to say enough is enough to the ECB climate
investments and propose a greener way forward.
In the past, citizens have not been seriously included in
Monetary Dialogues. We’ve teamed up with our friends at Positive
Money EU to make sure this year you are and that your concerns are
heard.
It’s high time the ECB is properly scrutinized for its
policies and for its failures.
ahead
of MEPs talks with the ECB, let them know your views: take the 3 min
survey.
TAKE
THE SURVEY
From the cost of living crisis, to war and its consequences in
all Europe, the ECB is facing a critical period. However,
it’s crucial we remind its decision-makers not to chase one
issue with another: they can’t keep on ignoring the impending
climate urgency. Answers to the global crisis have to be
sustainable and fair, not a step backward for people and our
planet!
Hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members have already got the ECB
to acknowledge its role in the climate crisis and push it to take
first modest actions. Two years ago, thousands of you took a
survey and we took the results directly to the ECB
executives – they were certainly very unaccustomed to
coming face-to-face with the public's opinions!
here is still a long way ahead to make sure European monetary
policy supports the fight against climate change and for social
progress. Let’s refuse a world based on carbon emissions and
inequality.
MEPs should boldly engage with the ECB’s to break its climate
inaction. All this before it is too late. And to do so, they
need your support:
Have
your say! Fill in the survey to support MEPs’ talks with the
ECB.
