On Oct 26th 2022, we showed up with our children at the Women In Banking conference at the Intrepid Museum to send a message to Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo to stop funding the climate crisis through continued investments in fossil fuel projects.

As moms and New Yorkers, we know that we’re in a climate emergency and banks are a big part of the problem. Since 2016, while millions of people around the world have faced record breaking heat waves, fires and floods due to worsening climate change, these three banks have collectively invested more than one TRILLION dollars in fossil fuel projects. Specifically, since the Paris Agreement was signed, JPMorgan Chase has invested $382 billion in fossil fuel companies, Wells Fargo has invested over $272 billion in the fossil fuel industry and Citibank has lent over $285 billion. Along with Bank of America, these banks have loaned more to the fossil fuel industry than any other banks in the world.

This hurts everyone, but especially women and their children, who face disproportionate harm from climate impacts due to poverty and gender based violence.

That’s why we took time off of work and childcare to protest outside the conference with a giant sinking ship. There is no future in fossil fuels. And the three executives featured in the conference - Kristin Lemkau of Chase, Titi Cole of Citi and Ellen Patterson of Wells Fargo, should know that investing in climate destruction is not good leadership, not good business and definitely not real feminism.

There are no girl bosses on a dead planet.

Learn more about the global movement to push big banks to invest responsibly: BankOnOurFuture.org