{"id":252862,"date":"2024-06-20T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/scientists-demand-citigroup-end-fossil-fuel-funding\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:38:23","slug":"scientists-demand-citigroup-end-fossil-fuel-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/scientists-demand-citigroup-end-fossil-fuel-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Demand Citigroup End Fossil Fuel Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop financing companies engaged in fossil fuel&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/carly-phillips\/scientists-demand-citigroup-end-fossil-fuel-funding\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). 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