The global climate and ecological crises are more alarming than ever. The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs due to rampant burning and deforestation. Wildfires have engulfed the North American West, extreme floods have submerged highways in Detroit and entire towns in Germany, and Madagascar is enduring a climate change-induced famine.

As people around the globe suffer through worsening climate catastrophes, financial institutions such as BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase continue to fund the corporations perpetuating ecological destruction and human rights abuses.

As a member of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, we launched Deadline Glasgow: Defund Climate Chaos, a bold campaign in the lead-up to COP26 demanding an end to financial institutions' funding of climate destruction.

Financial institutions that support extractive companies directly enable the destruction of the Amazon and the violation of Indigenous land rights, and we cannot wait any longer for this to end.