Clergy to Vanguard: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!

 

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.

Multi-Faith Climate Finance Pledge
Multi-Faith Climate Finance Pledge

FINANCE THE FUTURE, NOT ITS DESTRUCTION Avoiding climate disaster requires an immediate end to new fossil fuel development. But—the world’s banks and asset managers continue to funnel trillions into new coal, oil and gas projects, creating humanitarian and ecological...

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