[ [link removed] ]A striking image capturing the intensity of a forest fire, with
towering flames consuming trees and billowing smoke filling the sky.
John,
We’re on global red alert: from the Amazon to the Congo Basin, megafires
are turning the world’s forests to ash at record speed.
An area the size of Panama has already been scorched at a staggering rate
of 18 football fields per minute. Scientists are warning that if we don’t
buck the trend fast, our most precious natural carbon sinks could be
permanently destroyed, triggering climate chaos and misery for millions.
Yet the worst offenders behind this destruction – a rotten, predatory
financial industry that's poured an astounding $6 trillion into dirty
fossil fuel companies driving deforestation in the last few years alone –
are flying completely under the radar. Their profits are even soaring!
Together, we could change that. The world’s most important climate summit
is just months away so we have a golden opportunity to turn up the heat on
bank execs and politicians while all eyes are on them!
We have a crack team ready to unleash a wave of winning tactics like:
filing complaints with financial regulators around the world, launching
smart legal strategies, and ramping up our campaigns in the media to
expose these big banks.
Let’s make the next few months a turning point for the planet. Can you
help stop climate criminals from destroying the world?
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Scientists are freaking out: they haven’t seen fires like this in decades.
But it hasn’t come out of the blue – years of punishing drought and
scorching heatwaves driven by global heating have pushed our iconic
forests into crisis.
Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Bank of America are carrying on with
business as usual: pumping billions every year into dirty energy projects,
even though these banks pledged to drastically reduce their emissions. The
companies that they generously provide with loans, investments and
insurance cause 80 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.
If banks simply stopped financing fossil fuels, it would be a real reset
for the global economy – and for the fight against climate change.
But right now, the financial incentives are all wrong. We need to force
banks and insurers to rethink and recalculate how they do business.
Together, we could make this happen if we have enough funds to tackle the
enormous work ahead of us like:
* Filing complaints with financial regulators around the world to rein
in toxic big banks;
* Making these CEOs famous for their role in climate chaos, hounding
them at public appearances and splashing their faces on billboards and
in the media;
* Pushing governments to pass new laws and regulations to close
loopholes and make fossil fuel projects too expensive and too
difficult to bankroll;
* Organising employees of targeted banks and insurers to oppose their
companies’ policies from the inside;
and more!
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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.
These companies are at the root of the climate crisis – and countless
other tragedies that impact us all. If we’re going to save the planet,
we’ll have to change the way they do business fast.
Together we convinced insurance giant AIG to stop underwriting a
disastrous, climate-wrecking coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef. With
your help now, we can take on the biggest players of the financial
industry and win again. Are you with us?
Thanks for all that you do,
Yasmin, Miriam, and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is
the heart of the inferno The Guardian 23 May 2025
[ [link removed] ]Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’
data shows The Guardian 21 May 2025
[ [link removed] ]Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris
Agreement; $705 billion provided in 2023 alone; JP Morgan Chase, Mizuho,
and Bank of America are worst 3 funders Rainforest Action Network 12 May
2024
Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
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