Ukraine is under a brutal military attack by Putin’s Russia. Companies and governments across the world have been quick to withdraw funding from Russia in protest against this act of war.
But almost unfathomably, French oil giant Total have just announced that they will maintain fossil fuel assets in Russia - despite even BP and Shell cutting their ties with the country already.
With this decision Total has shown us once again that they don’t care about anything other than money. And so the only way to stop them is to take the money away.
We demand that commercial banks who finance Total and its projects stop immediately. From across the world we call on banks: cut Total off.
#TotalKnew: the oil giant knew they were causing global warming almost 50 years ago. They covered up the truth, funded misinformation, lied to their shareholders and the public. They made profit off of pollution.
Total’s fossil fuel business depends on money they get from private banks. We demand that banks who finance Total and its projects stop immediately.
With one hand, these banks hold our hard-earned money, and our retirement savings. With another, they finance Total’s toxic business which fuels the climate crisis and robs us of a safe and secure future.
Commercial banks like Crédit Agricole, HSBC or Chase depend on their clients: that’s us, regular people all over the world. If enough of us speak up and demand that private banks break their ties with Total now, we could become a real threat to their reputation and business - and we could make their association with Total and other coal, oil and gas companies too toxic to be worth the risk. This is how, step by step, we dismantle the power of the fossil fuel industry.