Global Divestment Day – are you in? 350 org

Dear friend,

As negotiators meet in Lima exactly one year before a new climate agreement needs to be signed in Paris, we face a pivotal moment in our movement’s response to the climate crisis. We know that world leaders won’t act in accordance with the urgency of the climate crisis as long as the fossil fuel industry holds the balance of power.

That’s why a growing global fossil fuel divestment movement has been directly challenging the power of these rogue corporations who prioritise profits at the expense of people and planet. In just two years, this movement has already secured huge victories that are putting the industry on the backfoot. But to truly win this fight, we need to step things up.

So, this February, we’re holding the first ever Global Divestment Day and we’d love you to join us.

Click on the image below to register today!

On February 13 and 14*, thousands of people around around the world will turn out to take collective action and demand institutions do right by the climate by divesting from fossil fuels.

Exciting plans are already taking shape on 5 different continents.

• Students will hold flash-mobs, vigils, sit-ins and rallies calling upon their university endowments to invest in a liveable future.
• We’ll be joined by the UK and Africa as, together, we close our accounts with banks and super funds investing in climate chaos.
• Faith leaders, doctors, farmers and people living on the frontline of climate change will band together to urge their communities to divest from climate destruction.
• In financial capitals, people will gather for large, colourful rallies calling on investors to break up with the fossil fuel industry and sever their ties once and for all.

Together, we will show that we are a global and growing force to be reckoned with. As the fossil fuel industry throws more money at fossil fuel expansion, we will turn up the volume of the  divestment movement. And we won’t stop until we win.

Join us to for Global Divestment Day and together, let’s make fossil fuels history!

Yours for a world free from the tyranny of fossil fuels,

Charlie, Louise, Yossi, Tim, Jay, Hoda, Liang-yi, Ferrial, Lushendri and the whole 350.org team.

*We’re spreading Global Divestment Day across Friday and Saturday to take into account the huge diversity of target institutions and tactics that will be needed across five different continents – click here to see which day your nearest event is taking place or to register your own event.

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