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?