{"id":19303,"date":"2018-11-13T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=19303"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:47:49","slug":"more-than-400000-call-on-banks-to-protect-the-climate-and-not-fund-dirty-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/press-release\/19303\/more-than-400000-call-on-banks-to-protect-the-climate-and-not-fund-dirty-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 400,000 call on banks to protect the climate and not fund dirty pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activists around the world are delivering petitions signed by more than 400,000 people, from 138 countries, calling on <\/span>12 banks<\/span><\/a>, including Credit Suisse, BBVA, and Barclays, to <\/span>immediately end their <\/span>financial relationships with tar sands pipelines projects and related pipeline companies including Energy Transfer, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Greenpeace Spain activists in Madrid and Greenpeace Mexico activists in Mexico City, delivered petitions to BBVA a bank that <\/span>continues to fund Energy Transfer and continues to be a part of the DAPL project loan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last week, petitions were also delivered to Credit Suisse by Greenpeace Italy activists in Rome, Greenpeace USA activists in New York City and Greenpeace Canada activists in Toronto, on 6 and 7 November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greenpeace Switzerland activists delivered petition signatures to Credit Suisse headquarters in Zurich on 6 November. The activists spent 10 hours at the bank where they hand wrote the names of the petition signatures on boards placed outside the bank. <\/span><\/p>\n

Greenpeace UK activists held a day of action where 28 local groups visited 30 Barclays branches demanding change on 3 November. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe world\u2019s leading scientists <\/span>have sounded the alarm<\/span><\/a>, warning that we must cut emissions from fossil fuels by half in the next 10 years if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. There\u2019s still time to keep global <\/span>warming below 1.5 degrees if we take urgent action to phase out fossil fuels and begin a transition to a renewable energy future that is fair and just,\u201d <\/span>Latimer continued<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit Suisse<\/span> finances, among other companies, Energy Transfer, which has hinted at its plans to expand the Dakota Access pipeline. It also provides funding to TransCanada Corporation and Enbridge, which plan to build tar sands pipeline projects Keystone XL and the Line 3 Expansion in Canada and the U.S. Such infrastructure would ensure the expansion of climate-wrecking tar sands operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/b><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n

The 12 banks include:<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Barclays (UK), JP Morgan Chase (US), Toronto Dominion (Canada), Royal Bank of Canada (Canada), Citibank (US), Deutsche Bank (Germany), Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (Japan), Cr\u00e9dit Agricole (France), Wells Fargo (USA), BBVA (USA, Spain, Mexico), Mizuho (Japan).<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos and Videos can be accessed <\/b>here<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Contacts:<\/b><\/p>\n

Leola Abraham, Global Communications Lead, Greenpeace USA: +1 (202) 413 8930, <\/span>leola.abraham@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Greenpeace International Press Desk: +31 (0) 20 718 2470, <\/span>pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org <\/span><\/a>(available 24 hours)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThese 400,000 signatures show a growing global demand for banks and financial institutions to take urgent action against the threat of climate change. Banks must act on their commitments to the Paris Agreement. It is irresponsible for banks to provide funding to companies that operate dirty oil pipelines when we know such projects have no place in a clean energy future,\u201d said Charles Latimer, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[87],"p4-page-type":[98],"class_list":["post-19303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19309,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions\/19309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19303"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=19303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}