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In the run- up to COP 26, we’re calling on banks to stop investing in fossil fuels.

What is the problem?

Banks around the world are contributing to the climate emergency by pumping billions into fossil fuels every year. Their support is a lifeline for climate destroying activities like drilling for oil in the arctic and in deep water, extracting oil from tar sands, and fracking shale rock for gas, damaging lives, livelihoods and habitats.

Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, 60 global banks have invested a staggering $3.8trillion in the fossil fuel industry’s continued growth. UK banks are part of the problem: Barclays and HSBC are among some of the worst banks in the world for funding fossil fuels.

What can you do?

If you only have a minute…
● Share this post on your social media channels

If you have 2 minutes…
● Glasgow City Council have voted in support of divesting Strathclyde Pension Fund from fossil fuels.The Pension Committee have yet to act on this. Sign this new open letter.
● If you’re a community group, activist network or not for profit, link in with this open letter to the COP 26 president demanding that big polluters’ have no access to the talks in Glasgow in November 2021.

If you have 10 minutes…
● Contact banks directly by phone or social media and tell them to stop funding fossil fuels.

If you have more than 10 minutes
● Explore options to divest your own banking and energy supplier.

 

Just after we sorted out our website in February, the world took a strange and difficult turn (you might have noticed). So we haven’t been posting updates here, because we haven’t been able to do most of the things we would normally do. But we’re still doing as much campaigning as we can online, so give us a shout if you want to find out more or get involved. And hopefully soon we’ll be able to get back to campaigning in the real world…watch this space.

Hi folks. If you’ve looked at this page over the last few months you’ll have noticed that it hasn’t changed. Apologies for that – we’ve been having some difficulties with the website and haven’t been able to update it. We’re back to normal now, though, so watch this space for new stuff we’re doing in 2020. And you can always follow us on Facebook for more regular updates.

 

On the Byres Road outside Hillhead Library on Saturday, 8th June, talking to people about a US-UK trade deal that could see chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves, US corporations in our NHS and a whole raft of our laws and regulations challenged in international corporate courts.

With Theresa May stepping down, this is even more likely under her successor.We can’t let that happen. Sign the petition to oppose a toxic US-UK trade deal now:

https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/no-toxic-trade-deal-trump

A good day out with our friends from the Unions for the May Day March and Rally earlier this month. Shame there wasn’t more wind to keep the flag flying properly!