John, tomorrow we’ll hand over more than 160,000 signatures of
SumOfUs members to the Ministry of Economy in Paris, asking the French
government to stop bankrolling Total and throwing money at oil or gas
drilling in the Arctic!
[ [link removed] ]Will you join the call and help reach 200,000 signatures before the
petition delivery to send a strong message to Macron?
Sign the petition
Thanks for all that you do,
Leyla and the team at SumOfUs
Here's my first email with more informations:
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France wants to destroy the Arctic!
French President Macron is about to do the unthinkable and guarantee
Total's new Arctic gas megaproject -- to the tune of €700 million.
Total's plans directly threaten the survival of Indigenous people and will
drive runaway climate change.
Tell Macron to pull the plug on Total's Arctic drilling ambitions!
[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition
John,
French oil giant Total wants to pump the equivalent of 535,000 barrels of
oil per day from under the Arctic's fragile ice.
Total’s planned Arctic gas megaproject is set to become one of the most
polluting projects in the world -- and financial backing of the French
government could make it a reality.
France’s President Macron likes to show off his green credentials, even
calling Total’s project "incoherent" and "reckless".
But away from the TV cameras, he’s about to quietly grant a €700 million
loan guarantee to Total.
This dirty double-dealing must stop, and we need to move fast before
Macron’s final decision. Macron is obsessed with his international image,
a global public outcry will definitely embarrass him. John, if
we stand together, we can still stop him becoming a Total Arctic
Destroyer. Will you join this global action?
[ [link removed] ]Tell Macron to withdraw from Total's deadly Arctic project and stick to
his international climate commitments!
The Arctic is home to Indigenous communities like the Gwich'in, the Inuit,
and the Sámi. It also shelters emblematic and vulnerable species like
polar bears and narwhals.
Total's plan will assault the Arctic landscape and life with methane
explosions, pollution and more deadly heat waves.
John, there is still time to stop the escalating melting of the
Arctic ice. Together we can push world leaders like Macron -- always first
in line to sign climate agreements -- to stop funding destructive drilling
by corporations like Total.
If we make the French government back off today, we’ll send a strong
message to other heads of state: That we, the global public, won't
tolerate public money being used to finance our destruction!
[ [link removed] ]Tell Macron to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to
climate action and not guarantee Total's gas mega-project.
Across France, SumOfUs members like you have joined with our partners at
350 to make the French government think twice -- for now. But Macron is
most sensitive to international opinion, so they need your help to expose
his double-dealing on climate to the world.
Over the past year, SumOfUs members have been holding our governments to
account on the climate crisis — rallying our world leaders to stop pouring
public recovery money into the worst polluters’ pockets.
Now we have the chance to do that again, and stop the French government
financing arctic oil drilling. No more climate talk, we want climate
action:
[ [link removed] ]Tell Macron to stop bankrolling Total and throwing money at oil or gas
drilling in the Arctic!
[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition
Thanks for all that you do,
Leyla and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
[ [link removed] ]Exclusive: International lenders back $9.5 billion financing for
Russia's Arctic LNG 2 - document, Reuters, 18 September 2020
(op-ed in French) [ [link removed] ]L’Etat français doit cesser son soutien à
l’exploration gazière en Arctique, L'Obs, 26 February 2021
[ [link removed] ]Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, Arctic Center - University of Lapland
[ [link removed] ]Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers
Say, The New-York times, 20 July 2020
(in French) [ [link removed] ]La France pourrait soutenir un gigantesque projet gazier
dans l’Arctique russe, Le Monde, 2 September 2020
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