Dear Jack, 

 

Have you seen our email? As extreme weather intensified by climate change devastates communities around the world, it's urgent that we stop burning fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy system. Yet Big Banks continue to finance new fossil fuel operations, worsening the climate crisis and environmental injustices.

 

Write today and tell Citi leaders to stop enabling the harms of the fossil fuel industry.

Sincerely,

Union of Concerned Scientists

Here's the email we previously sent:

Dear Jack, 

 

As extreme weather intensified by climate change devastates communities around the world, it's urgent that we stop burning fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy system. Yet Big Banks continue to finance new fossil fuel operations, worsening the climate crisis and environmental injustices. 

 

Write today and tell Citi leaders to stop enabling the harms of the fossil fuel industry. 

According to the 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report, Citi is the second-largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the Paris climate agreement, having poured $396 billion into the industry since 2016.

 

In 2024, along with other large US banks, it exited the Net Zero Banking Alliance convened by the United Nations, calling further into question its commitment to cooperating across the finance sector towards key climate goals. It is unacceptable that Citi and other Big Banks continue to profit from business with the fossil fuel industry as people around the world face deadly climate disasters and future projections grow increasingly dire.

 

In the summer of 2024, activists with the Summer of Heat on Wall Street engaged in a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to demand that Citi take the climate crisis seriously. Let's keep the pressure on.

 

Write to Citi and demand they stop financing fossil fuel expansion, uphold human rights, and invest in the clean energy transition that the world needs. 

Thank you for your continued commitment to fighting for science!

Union of Concerned Scientists

Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612.