Big U.S. banks are among the top funders of gas and oil drilling in the Amazon — while claiming to fight biodiversity loss and exploitation of indigenous peoples.
We cannot accept that these banks claim to be sustainable while, in fact, they profit from investing in oil and gas drilling in the Amazon.
Tell these big U.S. banks: Stop the destruction in Amazon. End your oil and gas investments!
To: Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America
As a financial institution, you are destroying the Amazon by funding oil and gas companies that drill there.
Your investments in oil and gas exploration are destroying biodiversity and wildlife and threatening indigenous peoples and traditional communities who live there.
Despite claiming to fight biodiversity loss and exploitation of indigenous peoples, you continue to finance destructive operations — that’s pure greenwashing.
Instead of using your billions of dollars to help fund oil and gas drilling, you should use your vast resources to decarbonize and promote a fair energy transition in the Amazon.
— 350.org