At our last Friday's Stand With Ukraine call we came up with the
draft idea that I am sharing with you now. There is a
short version and a longer version in the document.
We apologise for the urgency of the matter. I know that many of
you are incredibly busy before Stockholm+50 and we deeply appreciate your
support.
Please
consider signing-on by the end of the day tomorrow, May
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Countries
around the world, with a few exceptions, continue buying coal, oil and gas from
Russia thus powering its war machine that has already killed tens of thousands
of civilians and injured countless others and caused multiple global crises.
Moreover, fossil fuel exploration is increasing in many regions of the world,
especially African, Asian and Latin American countries, whom we stand in
solidarity with.
The
EU is poignantly slow in banning and phasing out Russian fossil fuels and every
day still sending about one billion euros to feed putin’s war machine but far
more active in mobilizing oil and gas reserves worldwide. This deepens the
climate crisis and severely undermines the EU global leadership in green
transformation declared by the EU Green Deal. We would like to use the political
moment and make a pressure on the EU towards the ban of Russian fossil fuels and
acceleration of a clean energy transition.
We
demand:
- a
complete and immediate embargo on Russian coal, oil and gas as well as
sanctions against the Russian nuclear sector;
- secondary
sanctions on all buyers of Russian fossils, including buyers outside the
sanctions coalition countries, shipping companies and refineries
- radical
clean energy transition and rapidly accelerated investments in the development
of clean energy, energy efficiency and energy savings measures across Europe
and globally as a wartime effort to increase energy security and speed up
climate action.
Thank you so much and in solidarity,