Demand Citi's Board Chair to stop fueling the climate crisis

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Recent extreme weather is not coincidental. They are symptoms of an escalating climate crisis that has been building for decades.

A major catalyst for this crisis is the funding of the fossil fuel industry by big banks. Banks invest billions of dollars into coal, oil, and gas corporations that create dirty energy, instead of doubling down on the renewables we need.

Citibank (Citi) and its board chair, John Dugan, are major climate offenders. Under Dugan, Citi has provided funding to companies like Exxon, Shell, Chevron, and Enbridge, who are building polluting new pipelines, oil rigs, and power plants, despite frontline resistance. These unethical investments make Citi the second largest funder of fossil fuels in the world.

Citi's support for new fossil fuel projects jeopardizes our communities’ health, human rights, and future generations. As we experience the very real effects of the climate crisis, the cost of inaction is too high.

Together, let's demand Citi and Dugan divest from fossil fuels for the sake of our communities — and our planet.

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Mr.

John

Dugan

Citi

Dear Mr. {contact_data~lastName},

The past months have been a display of unprecedented climate disasters.

Canada is experiencing rampant wildfires and deadly air quality, while communities across the U.S. experience turbulent storms and flooding. Communities around the world have been hit with a record heatwave that has widely affected infrastructure and water supplies.

Climate scientists and experts agree that this bad weather is a clear symptom of the escalating climate crisis –a crisis that Citibank directly enables through its fossil fuel funding.

Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, Citibank has poured nearly $333 billion dollars into the fossil fuel industry. Citi is now the world’s second-largest funder of fossil fuels in the world, the largest funder of coal in the US, and one of the largest funders of oil and gas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Unless Citi commits to stop financing fossil fuel expansion, the world will likely blow past the 1.5°C goal for limiting global warming in the coming years. We are already at 1.25°C of warming. Communities are already feeling the intense impact of warming as climate records are being regularly broken around the world.

Your actions are worsening this crisis, and any new fossil fuel projects that Citi finances will only make the situation worse.

Given the unprecedented number of climate-driven disasters occurring around the world in the last few years, it is past time for Citi to stop financing fossil fuel expansion.

I urge you to listen to climate scientists, and live up to Citi’s existing climate commitments, to take meaningful climate action now. Our health, our lives, and the livability of the planet depend on the actions you take next.

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