If you can get to NYC mid-June, we are ending fossil financing with a sustained campaign of nonviolent direct action. Sign up here (summerofheat.org/get-involved), and/or reach out to me or any of our coordinators to join our science theme day: @SRTurtleIsland@ClimateHuman@luckytran@DoctorVive #SummerofHeat #CitiDropFossilFuels
We’ve shut down Citi’s global headquarters because Citi is the world’s second largest funder of fossil fuels. Citi has provided over $332 billion in financing for coal, oil and gas since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016. Citi is the largest US financier of fossil fuels in the Amazon and the largest US financier of coal.
Citi’s fossil fuel financing is to blame for horrific floods, wildfires and heatwaves; mass drought and food shortages; mass forced displacement and migration; and other deadly, devastating climate impacts. Air pollution from fossil fuels also kills 8 million people annually. Citi’s fossil fuel financing also results in devastating impacts for communities at the frontlines of fossil fuel extraction and production, including dangerous health impacts, polluted air, water and soil, and the destruction of local ecosystems.
Citi’s fossil fuel financing disproportionately poisons and kills Black communities, Indigenous communities, and other communities of color. For example, in the Gulf South, Citi has provided $668 million in funding to Formosa Plastics between 2001-2021, which is trying to build a $9.4 billion plastics facility in a majority Black community in the heart of Cancer Alley in Louisiana.
Hundreds of us are here today from all walks of life. We are representing a multi-racial, multi-class movement, including from working-class communities of color hurt first and worst by climate impacts. Many of us are local New Yorkers, and we are also welcoming leaders from around the world here fighting for their communities at the frontlines of fossil fuel projects financed by Citi. We’re parents and grandparents fighting for our children and grandchildren, and young people fighting for our futures. All of us are united in the belief that fossil fuels are ravaging and killing us, and fighting for our right to live in safe, stable communities.
Hundreds of us are here today from all walks of life. We represent a multi-racial, multi-class movement, including from working-class communities of color hurt first and worst by climate impacts. We are united because fossil fuels are ravaging and killing us. We are fighting for our right to live in safe, stable communities. #SRTI #CitiDropFossilFuels