Take Action: Demand that Chase and Blackrock walk away from the Saudi Aramco Deal
JP Morgan Chase just announced it will align its business model with the Paris Climate Agreement. BlackRock just supported its first-ever resolution addressing deforestation company supply chains. Those two announcements are huge — but the companies are already backtracking. The two financial giants just started discussing a deal worth over $10 billion with Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, to provide it with a major influx of cash as oil prices hit an all-time low due to the pandemic. Saudi Aramco is one of the world’s primary drivers of climate chaos. What’s more, these global brand names in world finance would be helping Saudi Arabia whitewash its appalling record of human rights violations.
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Or do it manurally: send an email to:
jamie.dimon@jpmchase.com
executive.office@chase.com
daniel.pinto@jpmorgan.com
ashley.bacon@jpmchase.com
cpak@crown-chicago.com
mhobson@arielinvestments.com
timothy.flynn@walmart.com
samantha.tortora@blackrock.com
michelle.edkins@blackrock.com
brian.deese@blackrock.com
amy.hunter@blackrock.com
sandra.boss@blackrock.com
With a message similar to the following (if you adapt it and set your own subject line you email has a hugely more significant chance of getting through to their inboxes!)
Dear JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock Executives and Board Members –
I was shocked to learn that you are considering facilitating a $10 billion deal to sell a major stake in Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company.
As the world’s largest fossil fuel company, Saudi Aramco is the primary driver of climate chaos on the planet. They’re one of just twenty companies whose relentless exploitation of fossil fuels is linked to more than one-third of all carbon emissions in the modern era.
In January, BlackRock promised to make climate action a priority in all of its business decisions. Just last week, JPMorgan Chase committed to align its business with the Paris Agreement.
Your support of Saudi Aramco reveals the emptiness and hypocrisy of your commitments. If your companies are at all serious about aligning with the Paris Accord, you need to take immediate actions, including:
– Stopping financing for all coal companies (as defined by the Global Coal Exit List)
– Excluding financing for any project that involves exploration for new fossil fuel reserves, expands extraction of fossil fuels, or builds infrastructure that incentivizes new extraction.
– Committing to reduce your company’s overall climate impact on a timeline compatible with limiting climate change to 1.5°C. This means halving its climate impact by 2030 and zeroing it out by 2050.
– Committing to using your shares to vote off company directors that are opposed to climate action, vote in favor of climate resolutions and use your full power as investors to demand climate action at the scale of the crisis.
Being at all serious about aligning your business with the Paris Accords would mean not facilitating a $10 billion deal with the world’s largest oil company.
I look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely
