Join the Climate March: Move Money out of Climate Change
On September 21st, the eve of the historic summit on climate change in New York, hundreds of thousands of people across the world will take to the streets to demand #ActionNotWords from global leaders.
Move your Money, the movement for better banking, is encouraging people to move their money out of banks that fund climate change. We’re increasingly concerned about the role of Britain’s top five banks in the fossil fuel industry, with the exploitation and burning of oil, gas and coal a direct cause of rising CO2 emissions.
Some of the biggest investors in climate change, UK banks have channeled £12 billion into coal since 2005 and underwritten over £170 billion in bonds and share issues for fossil fuel companies.
Join the ‘Fossil Free Bloc’ on the People’s Climate March London to demand action not words. To demand that fossil fuel stays in the ground, and the industry gets it’s fingers out of our politics.
For too long now, this dirty industry has wrapped its oily fingers around our politics, our democracy, our culture and our economy. It’s time to loosen that grip and wave in climate solutions.
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Join the Fossil Free Bloc on Sept 21st:
Demand Action Not Words: Real Leaders Go Fossil Free
Meet at 12.15pm outside the MacAdam Building, King’s College London
Look out for the giant ‘carbon bubbles’
(set off to join the march at 12.35)
RSVP:http://act.350.org/event/peoples_climate/7683
Exciting actions to isolate the fossil fuel industry will be popping up pre and post the march — keep your eyes peeled and follow the hashtag #fossilfree.
Useful resources:
1. WDM Carbon Capital campaign — The impact of the UK finance industry on Climate Change
2. Carbon Tracker — Embedded carbon in equity markets
3. Fossil Free — A global movement to divest from fossil fuels
4. Blog: ‘How I moved my money from funding climate change to renewable energy.’
Originally published on 19th September 2014 at moveyourmoney.org.uk
