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350 WA Civic Action Team Hello 350 WA folks!
We are welcoming NEW volunteers into the 350 WA Civic Action Team campaign! Come join our crew for an evening on Zoom to learn about our legislative work and get connected to our fabulous Volunteer Teams ahead of the 2024 Washington Legislative session that begins in January.
With care, Grace Hope (they/them) Leadership Development Director with 350 Seattle & Network Facilitator with the 350 WA Network
I acknowledge the people – past, present, and future – of the Puyallup and Coast Salish nations on whose traditional lands I live, study, and work. They are still here, and their voices are imperative to our planet's future.
Public Comment Hearing for PSE’s LNG Rate Adjustment
COSTCO: Time to Clean Up Your Credit Card Costco has a credit card partnership with one of the dirtiest banks in the world. Citi is the second-largest funder of fossil fuels in the world, the largest American funder of coal, and one of the largest funders of projects that violate human rights and Indigenous sovereignty. To move the banks off of fossil fuels, we need some of these companies' biggest clients to demand change. As the third largest retailer in the US, Costco, along with its vast membership base, is a massive client of Citi. That’s where you come in.
Tell Costco to drop dirty Citibank as its credit card issuer, for communities and our climate.
Costco is one of Citi’s largest credit card clients. Citi makes a lot of money from its relationship with Costco, and you know what banks care about? Money. That’s why Costco has the power to either persuade Citi to stop financing fossil fuel expansion or switch to a better credit card company that isn’t wrecking the planet. If Costco threatens to move to a fossil-free credit card provider, Citi can be motivated to clean up its act.
Costco has already made important commitments to having climate-friendly operations, and Costco cares about what its members and potential new shoppers think. If we come together, we can hold Costco accountable, put pressure on them to drop Citi, and push Citi to stop financing fossil fuels.
That’s why we need Costco members and non-members alike to tell Costco: clean up your credit card.
We know Costco is popular—that’s why this petition is important: 30% of Americans shop at Costco, they recently adopted a decent climate policy… and hey, free samples and $1.50 hot dogs are hard to beat! That’s why we are hoping to organize thousands of Costco members to sign this petition and tell Costco to live up to its own motto to “do the right thing.”
You can tell Costco right now to shop for a better credit card issuer by signing the petition.
If Costco considered the carbon pollution that is associated with its banking providers as part of its operational carbon footprint, then these emissions are its biggest single source of carbon pollution, even more than the emissions from all the energy used in Costco’s warehouse stores for lights, heating, refrigeration, and deliveries.
By ending its credit card relationship with Citi, Costco can step up, keep its own climate promises, and help compel Citi to stop funding fossil fuels. We know that Costco listens to us – it's shoppers and concerned members of the public – and we know that Citi will listen to Costco. That’s why we need your help right now in telling Costco to clean up its credit card.
Fossil Free Citi 2023 will mark a year where the effects of the climate crisis were witnessed and felt worldwide like never before. It will also mark a year where frontline communities, organizers, and advocates repeatedly came together to call attention to the perpetrators of fires, floods, smoke, and heat. This has been instrumental in spotlighting the bad actors contributing to and driving climate destruction. Some of the worst of these actors? Big banks like Citi. The global climate crisis is being primarily driven by oil and gas corporations, and big banks are long-time financial enablers of this fossil fuel destruction. Citibank — a.k.a. Citi — is an especially bad actor. Citi is backing fossil fuel expansion into sacred regions like Amazonia — razing the tree population and ecosystems and contaminating the rivers that Indigenous communities depend on. The bank funds numerous multi-billion projects violating Indigenous rights and polluting sacred land—from the Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline in so-called Canada to the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.
We have only a few years left to cut the world’s climate pollution in half. We are already at 1.25°C of warming, and communities are feeling the intense impact of warming as extreme weather and other climate disasters intensify. And Citi’s continued complicity and inaction in spite of this is unacceptable. That’s why a global network of Indigenous rights, climate and human rights groups are launching the Fossil Free Citi campaign. We’re rising up and resisting Citi’s financing of climate destruction, and organizing for community-led solutions to the ecological and economic crises we face. We, the people of Fossil Free Citi, declare that enough is enough. We believe that a safe and stable climate is possible. Together, let's demand Citi stop backing fossil fuels for the sake of our communities — and our planet. In solidarity, PS: Learn more at fossilfreeciti.org. Thank you for all you do, Emily, Lin, Lynn, Marilyn, and Phil 350 Eastside |
