Last week, I participated in the Scientists Speakout Day during the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, to protest and disrupt the financial institutions that are enabling the fossil fuel industry (and, as a result, our current climate crisis). This campaign, which will be active all summer, demands action from Citigroup and other big banks and insurers to stop enabling fossil fuel pollution.
Citi is underwriting climate devastation through its continued funding of fossil fuels, including $396 billion since the Paris Agreement in 2016. These investments and resultant heat-trapping emissions are driving record heat and extreme climate impacts worldwide.
Scientists Speakout Day coincided with the release of an open letter to Citi CEO Jane Fraser and Board Chair John Dugan, signed by over 750 scientists, calling on Citi to:
- Stop financing companies engaged in fossil fuel…
Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.