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End Amazon Crude

To protect the climate and defend indigenous rights, we must stop the expansion of the oil drilling in the Amazon. And in order for that to happen, we need to push U.S. corporations and politicians to to do their part to End Amazon Crude. More

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Global Campaign Exposes BlackRock for Devastating Climate Impacts of Investments

Campaigners urge CEO Larry Fink to heed his own words and define BlackRock's social purpose

May 24, 2018

New York, NY – Some of the country's largest environmental and human rights groups issued a challenge to BlackRock at its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, daring the world's largest asset manager to take greater leadership on climate change following ambitious statements by BlackRock's CEO calling on corporations to pursue ends beyond pure short-term profit.

Amazonian Leaders Call on California to Go Fossil Fuel-Free at Chevron's Richmond Refinery

Bay Area environmental and indigenous organizations join protest to call attention to Chevron's key role in causing destruction to people and planet

May 17, 2018

Richmond, CA – Indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian Amazon joined Bay Area allies at Chevron's Richmond Refinery on Thursday morning to call on California's political leadership to phase out oil and gas production and processing in the state, including its importation of crude oil drilled in the Amazon rainforest.

Chase AGM: Dozens of Indigenous and Frontline Community Representatives Call for an End to Bank Financing of Extreme Fossil Fuels

Delegates from Canada to Ecuador and across the U.S. travel to Texas to deliver open letter to Chase shareholders

May 15, 2018

The quickly growing international campaign pressuring JPMorgan Chase to end its massive funding of extreme fossil fuels continued to escalate today as a delegation representing Indigenous and nonindigenous communities from Canada to Ecuador and across the U.S. gathered at Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Plano, Texas.
Chevron's SLAPP Suit Against Ecuadorians: Corporate Intimidation

Chevron's SLAPP Suit Against Ecuadorians: Corporate Intimidation

May 11, 2018Greenpeace

In perhaps the most vindictive SLAPP in history, Chevron – one of the world's largest corporations, with over $260 billion in assets – found a sympathetic New York judge to accept a RICO lawsuit against the victims of its vast oil pollution in Ecuador's Amazon basin.
Why California's Oil Policy Matters for the Amazon

Why California's Oil Policy Matters for the Amazon

Governor Brown's last chance to plan for managed decline of fossil fuel production

April 19, 2018

About half of the oil exports from the Western Amazon Basin come to California to be processed by refineries and used by consumers in the state. This means that more oil from the Amazon rainforest is used in California than anywhere else in the world, and California's demand for this toxic crude oil is literally driving continued destruction across the Amazon.
Investor Eye on the Amazon

Investor Eye on the Amazon

A primer for shareholders concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

Spring 2018

The Investor Eye on the Amazon provides an update on our campaigns targeting corporations with ties to dirty industry in the Amazon, and it aims to serve as a resource for socially-responsible investors, industry analysts, and researchers looking to better understand the risks associated with investment in extractive industries - and their own portfolios’ ties to these industries - in the Amazon and beyond.

U.S. Senators Send Letters to BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase on Amazon Crude

Letters from Senators Whitehouse and Schatz request financial institutions address the climate and social risk of financing oil companies operating in the Amazon and other high-impact areas

March 26, 2018

"As the Senators' letter reminds us, climate change also poses a significant financial risk to the economy, especially for the fossil fuel industry and its financial backers. Investing in companies with particularly controversial operations, like those located on indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest, poses an outsized risk because of local opposition. Not only that, but these projects may violate international and national laws requiring free, prior and informed consent of indigenous communities."

Social-Good Deficiency?

Directors & Boards Magazine calls out BlackRock's hypocrisy as one of eight key topics they believe will be "On the Table for 2018" in the introduction to their First Quarter issue

March 15, 2018Directors & Boards

The latest ESG push came from BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink sending an ultimatum to corporations across the country to make social good part of the overall business strategy plans or else. Turns out, BlackRock has investments in companies that are drilling in the Amazon, according to the nonprofit Amazon Watch.
​​Letter from ​Leading Environment and Human Rights Groups​: ​Ending Amazon Crude ​Is ​Key to Fossil-Free Movement

​​Letter from ​Leading Environment and Human Rights Groups​: ​Ending Amazon Crude ​Is ​Key to Fossil-Free Movement

March 5, 2018

We write to you – entities involved in the processing, use, regulation, and financing of Amazon crude – to request that you take action to stem the influx of Amazon crude oil into the United States in order to stop Amazon destruction, respect indigenous rights, and prevent runaway climate change.

Ending Amazon Crude Key to Fossil-Free Movement, Say Leading Environmental and Human Rights Groups

BlackRock, JP Morgan Chase and Amazon.com Challenged to End Their Support of Oil Drilling in the Amazon for the Good of Indigenous Rights and the Climate

March 5, 2018

Over fifty environmental and human rights organizations have signed on to an open letter in support of Amazon Watch's campaign to End Amazon Crude, recognizing it as a crucial component of the global movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground and protect the climate and indigenous rights.

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