On 4th November we had a stall outside HSBC on Hinckley Rd in Leicester.
Leicester WDM supported ‘Dirty Energy Month’ – a month of worldwide public protest and action to say NO to dirty energy and YES to clean, renewable alternatives.
Members of Leicester WDM set up an ‘extraction site’ outside our local HSBC bank and talked to people as they walked past. We also gave a letter to managers in the branch asking HSBC to stop investing in projects that promote climate change. HSBC underwrote £74.64 billion in share and bond issues to fossil fuel companies between 2010 to 2012.
We want the financial sector to come clean on its true impact. We need new rules to demand that banks and investors report on the carbon footprint of their investments.
Why not:
WATCH the WDM video: how our banks finance climate change and
DOWNLOAD the WDM report: Banking while Borneo burns
… TAKE ACTION – Help send HSBC a giant pile of coal
