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How to stop banks from investing in fossil fuels

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Lucie Pinson |

Countdown Summit

• October 2021

Money is pollution's biggest driving force -- particularly, the cash invested in dirty energy projects, says financial responsibility campaigner Lucie Pinson. She shares a three-pronged approach to stop banks from funding fossil fuel companies, including what she calls "collaborative blackmailing" (it's more ethical than it sounds). By demanding more accountability from polluting companies and encouraging ethical banking, Pinson shows how to cut off the problem at its source.

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Money is pollution's biggest driving force -- particularly, the cash invested in dirty energy projects, says financial responsibility campaigner Lucie Pinson. She shares a three-pronged approach to stop banks from funding fossil fuel companies, including what she calls "collaborative blackmailing" (it's more ethical than it sounds). By demanding more accountability from polluting companies and encouraging ethical banking, Pinson shows how to cut off the problem at its source.

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Lucie Pinson works to turn off the tap of financing for fossil fuel expansion and negotiate with banks and insurers on coal, oil and gas exit policies.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Learn more about how you can stop banks and insurers from supporting TotalEnergies' gigantic climate bomb in East Africa.

Learn more about how you can push Wall Street to stop being a first-world funder of climate change.

Learn more about how you can urge major financial institutions not to support Putin's fossil fuel war machine.