This risk alert released in partnership with Amazon Watch for the Exit Amazon Oil and Gas campaign spotlights Citigroup’s exposure and central role in providing billions in financing and investments to oil and gas companies in the Amazon.
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Indigenous leaders and federations directly impacted by oil drilling are calling on Citigroup to commit to exit Amazon oil and gas.
The Amazon is the last place on the planet that the oil industry and industrial extraction should be expanding and it is time for banks to step up and ensure that they aren’t complicit in harming Indigenous rights and the continued degradation of this critical region.
With the Amazon rainforest at the tipping point of ecological collapse, Citigroup’s lack of an exclusion policy and exit strategy on Amazon oil and gas presents a significant reputational risk
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This a testimony submitted by Hannah Saggau, Stand.earth Senior Climate Finance Campaigner, to the New York City Banking Commission to vote against major fossil fuel financing banks as Designated Banks.
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