Clergy to Vanguard: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!

October 27, 2023

 

Vanguard must decarbonize, massively scale up sustainable investments, adopt a human rights policy, and use its power to hold the worst climate actors accountable.

“When the fires burn and the seas rise, not in our name, we say, not in our name, we say, not in our name.”

Earlier this week, we found ourselves singing those words as we were led out by security at an investment industry conference attended by over 500 investors and industry leaders. A few minutes earlier, we had stood up to interrupt a speaker on the panel.

Vanguard: Stop Using Our Money to Destroy Our Future
Vanguard: Stop Using Our Money to Destroy Our Future

By Reverend Amy Brooks Paradise, GreenFaith Organizer This morning, called by my faith and fierce love for our planet, I took a stand for climate justice. Myself and several other GreenFaith activists disrupted Vanguard at a fancy industry conference near San Diego....

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