Chip in to fight climate change

They’re calling it a "heat apocalypse" – Europe is literally melting, with roads and runways turning into warped globs of sticky, hot tar. The UK just suffered through its hottest day in history. Arctic permafrost is melting 43x faster than before.

This is not normal. Climate change is destroying our planet already – and yet somehow keeps accelerating.

But the worst offenders behind it – a rotten, predatory financial sector that has poured an unbelievable $4.6 trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris agreement – are flying completely under the radar.

We’re going to change that.

SumOfUs has a plan to build a crack team of campaigners and investigators to expose the financial industry’s responsibility for this emergency, then run massive campaigns in the media and with shareholders to force them to change. We’ll shine the spotlight on these giants like never before. It could be a turning point for the planet, but we can’t do it without your help.

Will you chip in to hold the worst climate criminals to account?

Scientists are losing it, saying “We’ve never seen anything like this.” But household names like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Bank of America just carry on with business as usual. The $4.6 trillion they’ve given since 2016 is since they promised to pursue net-zero.

The companies they shower with loans, investment, and insurance are responsible for 71% of all greenhouse gas emissions. If the banks just defunded fossil fuels, it could literally reset our global economy.

Right now the financial incentives are too high for them to change. We need to change the calculation, by making these banks as famous for fuelling climate chaos as they are for plastering their names all over sports stadiums. Here’s how we’ll do it:

Build a team of expert climate defenders to run mega-campaigns that expose the worst offenders;
Make the CEOs famous for their role in climate destruction, hounding them at public appearances and splashing their faces on billboards and in the media;
Organise employees of targeted investment banks to oppose their companies’ policies from the inside;
File shareholder resolutions around the world to change the rules for investing in favour of the planet.

These banks are the root of the climate crisis. If we’re going to save the planet, this has to work.

We know it can work because we’ve done it before, convincing insurance giant AIG to end its underwriting of a disastrous, climate-wrecking coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef. So let’s do it again.

Will you chip in to fund this plan to take on the big banks wrecking our climate?

The plan is ambitious and bold, we know. But ambitious and bold is the only thing that will save life on Earth -- and your support today can help make it happen.

More information

Banks still supporting fossil fuels to the tune of billions
Capital Monitor. 5 April 2022.

Heat waves thawing Arctic permafrost
Phys Org. 28 July 2022.

Revealed: how climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather
The Guardian. 4 August 2022.

Unprecedented 32.5C in the Arctic Circle during month of smashed global temperature records
SkyNews. 2 July 2022.

Heatwave: Fires blaze after UK passes 40C for first time
BBC. 19 July 2022.

France and parts of England experience driest July on record as new heatwave nears
Euro News. 1 August 2022.