RAN activists are joining a huge protest outside of Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting this morning to demand the company take responsibility for its pollution in communities around the globe. Representatives from Angola, Ecuador, Nigeria, Indonesia, Canada, Alaska, and Texas, as well as from right here in California and several other places impacted by the company’s business operations, will be outside and inside the meeting to demand justice from Chevron.

The third annual True Cost of Chevron alternative annual report came out yesterday to expose the grim reality of Chevron’s business operations: “Chevron continues its long history of ravaging natural environments, violating human rights, ignoring the longstanding decisions of Indigenous communities, destroying traditional livelihoods, and converting its dollars into unjust political influence in the United States and around the world.”

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Bank of America today announced a new greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitment covering their office facilities.

While I welcome Bank of America’s continued acknowledgment that reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions is critical for combating the climate crisis, Bank of America must move quickly beyond commitments to reduce the carbon footprint of direct energy consumption by their offices and set ambitious targets to address the much larger carbon footprint of Bank of America’s financing of coal and other dirty energy.  The climate footprint of Bank of America’s financing activities is estimated to be one hundred times larger than the size of its operational carbon footprint.

By profiling efforts to address  the GHG emissions from their internal operations while quietly  ignoring the GHG impacts of the billions of dollars that the bank provides each year for the extraction and burning of dirty fossil fuels like coal, Bank of America is at risk of misleading the public as to the  true climate impacts of the company’s business.

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Over 75 organizations sent this open letter to President Rousseff to express their deep concerns regarding the implementation of the precautionary measures requested by the IACHR to safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples – including groups living in voluntary isolation – threatened by the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam Complex. 

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