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CEOs of banks that are financing Total

This petition is run by WeMove Europe

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The oil giant Total knew their core business was causing global warming almost 50 years ago. They covered up the truth, funded misinformation, lied to their shareholders and the public. They made profit from pollution.

Total’s fossil fuel business depends on money they get from banks. We demand that commercial banks who finance Total and its projects stop immediately

Why is this important?

In the last few days, people are taking to the streets to name and shame someone that has lied to all of us for years. One of the biggest oil companies, Total.

Since 1971, they have known that burning fossil fuels could cause a climate crisis. [1] They knew, and for decades they made every effort to hide the truth from everyone by funding disinformation and by misleading their shareholders and the public.

Total depends on the money they get from banks. With one hand, these banks hold our savings; with another, they fund Total’s climate-fuelling business. As the clients of these banks - we have power over them. This is our chance to support the protests in Spain, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Germany, France and beyond.

Already thousands have signed a petition to demand that banks cut off Total’s access to money. Banks are under pressure from all sides: The more people that join the petition, the bigger the threat we become to the bank’s reputation – and profits. We could make any association with Total and other fossil fuel companies too toxic to be worth the risk. Will you join thousands to build pressure on Total’s funders?


References:

  1. Their relentless extraction and burning of fossil fuels puts Total on the list of just 20 companies responsible for a third of all CO2 emissions since the 1960s. See
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions; https://totalknew.platform350.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2021/09/Bonneuil_Choquet_Franta_GEC2021_Early_warnings_Total%E2%80%99s_responses.pdf

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