September 25, 2024
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The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual Climate Week event featuring scientists, activists, and frontline leaders engaged in efforts to pressure big banks to stop financing fossil fuel expansion, respect human rights, and invest in a clean energy future. This event is part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign.
In June more than 750 scientists wrote to the executives of Citi highlighting the urgency of the climate crisis and calling on the bank to stop financing fossil fuel expansion, respect human rights and Indigenous sovereignty, and invest in a clean energy future. According to the 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report, Citi is the second largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the Paris climate agreement.
Since then, activists with the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign have organized peaceful actions to pressure Citi to take the climate crisis seriously. Citi and the NYPD have responded with aggressive repression tactics and brushed aside the evidence provided by scientists and frontline community leaders about the impacts of their actions.
March 28, 2024
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To effectively tackle plastic pollution by 90%, an estimated $5.22 trillion USD from both public and private sources is needed over the next 15 years, highlighting the necessity for innovative financial mechanisms that are flexible and rapidly deployable to help address the funding gap.
To this end, EA Earth Action, with the support of rePurpose Global, GreenBlue and Upstream, is publishing a report that aims to advance this critical landscape of innovative financial mechanisms to support the goals of the International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution.
The upcoming webinar will focus on Outcomes-Based Waste Prevention (OBWP), an innovative financial mechanism that incentivizes the reduction of plastic waste and aims to bridge the funding gap and accelerate progress towards Treaty goals. This session builds on Earth Action’s findings to discuss the significant role, application, and potential of Outcomes-Based Financial Mechanisms in mobilizing crucial capital for driving solutions among policymakers, businesses, and other key stakeholders at the crossroads of plastic pollution mitigation and financing.
To see the whole report, please see link here: https://www.e-a.earth/moving-towards-outcomes-based-financial-mechanisms-for-waste-prevention/
