expose Travelers Insurance for fueling the climate crisis

 

Travelers Insurance is one of the three biggest insurers for oil and gas companies in the world. But it tries to market itself as a green company. Last week, investors took an important first step toward reining in Travelers’ support for destructive fossil fuels by approving a proposal for the company to report on how it is reducing emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. However, a proposal calling on Travelers to end support for new coal, oil, and gas projects was not approved — even though ending that support is crucial for avoiding climate chaos. So it’s up to us to ramp up the pressure and convince Travelers to end support for new fossil fuel projects that are escalating deadly climate disasters. Can you email Travelers executives to urge them to end their dangerous insurance of fossil fuel expansion? We’re proud of Travelers’ investors for holding the company accountable to the Paris Agreement’s climate goals. But if Travelers is still insuring new oil and gas drilling operations and pipelines, it’s still playing a major role in the intensifying climate crisis! We must push back against its aggressive marketing as a sustainable, green company and expose the fact that it is one of the world’s biggest enablers of the climate crisis. Email Travelers executives right now to set the record straight on the company’s destructive climate record. Together, we can convince Travelers to insure our future, not fossil fuels. Thanks for taking action, Hannah Public Citizen Follow Us on Social Media Public Citizen 1600 20th Street NW    Washington, District of Columbia 20009

These “risk experts” are risking the planet

 

Right now, as you read this, shareholders at Chubb are meeting to decide our future. On the table is a vital resolution calling on Chubb to stop insuring fossil fuel expansion now. Chubb remains one of the top oil and gas insurers globally and invests BILLIONS in coal, oil, and gas companies. Pipelines and other destructive projects need insurance to operate; that’s why it’s crucial that insurance companies like Chubb commit to stop insuring fossil fuel expansion immediately. There’s no time left to waste. Take Action It's simple. If your company is fueling the climate crisis, we’re going to make sure everyone knows. Yesterday, RAN showed up outside Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg’s home and office in NYC with a message: insure our future, not fossil fuels. Today, they need to hear from you. Chubb claims to be a “steward of the Earth,” but in reality, they’re profiting from insuring fossil fuel expansion, and AT THE SAME TIME, they’re refusing to insure customers facing climate chaos because of it! We see right through their hypocrisy.  Join us in sending CEO Greenberg and other top Chubb executives a clear message: divest from fossil fuel expansion now and respect human rights. Take Action Thanks to your efforts, Chubb has taken steps like no longer insuring new coal-fired power plants, but it’s not enough. The planet can’t wait. We can’t wait.  Tell Chubb execs how you feel and demand they immediately stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects, phase out all fossil fuel underwriting and investing in line with a 1.5ºC pathway, and respect human rights.   In solidarity,  Elana Sulakshana Senior Campaigner Energy Finance Rainforest Action Network       At RAN, we take the “Network” in our name seriously. It is only through your support that we are able to fund major campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life. Please consider joining RAN as a Member by making a gift today.    425 Bush St, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94108, United States

AIG is ensuring climate chaos

 

Thanks to you, we won some important concessions from American International Group (AIG) — a massive fossil fuel insurer — when it restricted coverage for coal and tar sands oil earlier this year. But AIG is still insuring new oil and gas projects and investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels that drive deadly climate catastrophes. Here’s the deal: AIG’s annual shareholder meeting was today. The CEO talked about “solving risk issues” — but by enabling fossil fuel expansion, AIG is accelerating massive risks to us all. This is an important day to disrupt AIG’s moment on LinkedIn and send a powerful message to the CEO: Stop insuring deadly oil and gas expansion. Insure our future instead. Not on LinkedIn? You can send an email to AIG CEO Peter Zaffino and the board of directors using our handy click-to-email tool. Without crucial insurance coverage, fossil fuel companies can’t build new polluting infrastructure that is worsening wildfires, storms, and heatwaves around the world. But while AIG continues to support new oil and gas projects (while refusing to protect human rights), there’s a silver lining: We’ve successfully pressured the CEO once, so we know we can do it again! We need people to leave comments on AIG's LinkedIn post and let CEO Peter Zaffino know that continuing to insure and invest in fossil fuels is unacceptable. We can’t let the CEO get away with saying the right things and then continuing to invest even more money in the oil and gas projects that are destroying our environment and risking all our lives. If Zaffino sees people speaking out against fossil fuels and calling out greenwashing on AIG's page, it will force AIG to address the shortcomings of its climate commitments. Please take a couple minutes and tell AIG: Stop fueling the climate crisis and do your part to avoid catastrophic harm for the planet.  If you're not sure what to write, I left a comment of my own that you can use for inspiration. Thanks for speaking up, Hannah Public Citizen P.S. Remember: If you’re not on LinkedIn, you can send an email to AIG CEO Peter Zaffino and the board of directors using our handy click-to-email tool.

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