About fifty activists gathered on the Place de la Bourse this Friday in Paris to denounce the financing by banks of the activities of TotalEnergie, pinned last week for having minimized the role of oil companies in climate change.
"Totally, complicit funders", "Financing fossils is criminal" chanted activists from several associations, including 350.org, Notre Affaire à Tous, Attac, Reclaim Finance or even Fridays For Future Argentina.
" This must stop "
The action targeted BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and US asset manager BlackRock.
"They are investing directly in the climate crisis (...) and we are telling them today: 'this complicity has to stop," "said Isabelle L'Héritier, from 350.org, an international collective aiming to “End the era of fossil fuels”.
"The COP26 begins in two days and only Banque Postale, Maif and Ircantec in France have recognized their responsibility to say no to fossil expansion", noted Lara Cuvelier, representing the association Reclaim Finance.
Knowledge since 1971
Other coordinated actions are to be held across the world until November 6 to denounce the role of banks in financing Total, the associations said.
Ten days ago, an article by researchers from CNRS, Sciences Po and the American Stanford University revealed that Total had been aware of the harmful consequences of its activities for the climate as early as 1971, but then maintained the doubt and sought to thwart efforts to limit the use of fossil fuels.
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