John,

As megafires tear through primary rainforests in Brazil, reckless climate criminals are cashing in on hundreds of oil and gas operations across the Amazon. But oil and gas companies destroying the Amazon aren't working alone. 

Behind them stand powerful banks that have poured an astounding $7 trillion directly into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement. Without this financing, these oil and gas operations wouldn't exist – the worst offenders are flying completely under the radar! Their profits are even soaring.

We’re going to change that. We have a crack team ready to expose the big banks responsible for this Amazon emergency, then run smart campaigns in the media and with shareholders to force them to change. We’ll shine the spotlight on them like never before. 

It could be a turning point for the planet. Can you help hold these Amazon-destroying climate criminals to account?

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The Amazon is speeding toward a point of no return — scientists say if 20% of the forest is lost, it will set off a domino chain that will cause the whole ecosystem to collapse. Local communities are crying out. 18% of the forest is now gone.

We should be in red alert. Yet JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Bank of America are carrying on with business as usual, pumping trillions into dirty energy even AFTER they promised to slash emissions. The companies they shower with loans, investments, and insurance are responsible for 71% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

If banks defunded fossil fuels, it could literally reset our global economy – and the fight against climate change. But right now, the financial incentives are all wrong. We need to change the calculation by making these banks as famous for fuelling climate chaos as they are for plastering their names all over sports stadiums. Here’s how we’ll do it:

• Make the CEOs famous for their role in climate destruction, hounding them at public appearances and splashing their faces on billboards and in the media;

• Pass new regulations to close loopholes and make fossil fuel projects too expensive and too difficult to bankroll;

• Organise employees of targeted banks and insurers to oppose their companies’ policies from the inside;

• File shareholder resolutions around the world to change the rules for investing in favour of the planet.

Will you join the fight and help take on the big banks destroying the Amazon?

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These banks are the root of the climate crisis that’s causing the Amazon to die – and countless other tragedies. If we’re going to save the planet, we’ll have to change the way they do business.

We know it can be done, John. Because we’ve done it before when we convinced insurance giant AIG to stop underwriting a disastrous, climate-wrecking coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef. But we need your help to win again. Are you in?