Actress and activist Jane Fonda and Sharon Lavigne, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024, joined the public hearing confronting Citigroup’s environmental racism.
The hearing examined how the bank’s funding of oil, coal, and gas directly harms Black, Indigenous, and Global South communities. It culminated in demands for Citigroup to immediately stop funding fossil fuels, publicly acknowledge harm the bank has caused communities of color, respect Indigenous rights, and invest in a just transition to sustainable energy.
Climate activists are calling out Citi’s outsized financing for the fossil fuel industry.
Citibank has played a deciding factor in supplying the financing and credibility for oil expansion in Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil.
About $20 billion has been directed to funding fossil fuels since 2009. Banks are playing a critical role in ‘shifting the energy economics’.
Let’s send the message to the bank’s executives
Citi is a top profiteer off the extraction and destruction in the Amazon rainforest
Folks from Louisiana and Texas don’t have the luxury that executives from Wall Street have in turning away from these polluting projects.
Report reveals the top funders of climate chaos—and Citi’s at the top of the list.
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