Money is the oxygen on which the climate crisis burns.
But following the money gives us a powerful way to win.
Read MoreHow we'll win:
Around the world, people powered movements are running strategic campaigns to take on big financial players -- including big banks, investors and insurers -- and the governments and regulators that let them finance fossil fuels instead of investing in our communities and countries.
20+
Global campaigns by communities targeting financial institutions
50000+
People who have been part of actions, mobilizations and campaigns
$40B+
Divested from fossil fuels
100%
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Big finance is funding fossil fuels
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Banks
Banks are backing the fossil fuel industry: From 2016 to 2020, the world’s 60 largest banks invested $3.8 trillion into fossil fuel projects and companies. That’s a lot of coal mines, pipelines, and dirty factories. While many of us do our part to slow climate change, banks use our money to prop up the very companies making climate change worse.
Asset Managers
Global asset managers, like BlackRock and Vanguard, supply fossil fuel companies with a steady stream of capital. They also invest heavily in companies driving deforestation and back firms that undermine Indigenous rights. Asset managers that continue to fund the climate crisis face exponential risks: both environmental and financial.
Investors
Real climate action from investors is more pressing and important than ever. More often, we’re seeing climate-fuelled extreme weather events debilitating communities across the world and leaving death and destruction in their wake. If climate chaos — enabled by the investment industry — is allowed to wreak havoc on this world, shareholders will have a lot more to worry about than just their profits drying up.
Insurance Companies
The fossil fuel industry depends on insurance coverage for building and maintaining its coal mines, power plants and pipelines. Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to the largest threat to humanity – climate change – insurers are perpetuating dependence on fossil fuels by insuring new coal, oil and gas projects.
Financial Regulators
If financial institutions want to gamble with our future, it needs to be with their own money, not ours. For every dollar banks and governments invest in fossil fuels, they must use a dollar of their own funds to cover any future losses themselves, rather than rely on government bailouts.
Private Equity
Private equity is buying up excessive amounts of fossil fuel assets – oil wells, pipelines, power plants, operating them out of the public eye and exploiting gaps and loopholes in regulation.
Bonds
The bond market has become a safe haven for dirty fossil fuel companies to fund their expansion. Every time investors buy fossil fuel debt they are helping a new coal plant, a new oil and gas pipeline come on line.
Together, we're extinguishing the fire
The climate crisis can feel overwhelming. But cutting off the money supply is a powerful tool for change. Across the world, activists, groups, and social movements are organising to hold finance giants to account.
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