Desjardins
Your money is funding the climate crisis.
Your bank doesn't top the charts, but it’s still using your money to lend to fossil fuel companies and projects that are rapidly accelerating the climate crisis.
While you’ve been stashing away money for a house or a weekend get-away, Desjardins has been using your savings to lend to some very questionable fossil fuel friends. And it's not just a little here and there, we’re talking about in the 7 years since 197 countries agreed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in the Paris Agreement.
Your bank is ignoring the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Agreement set the goal to stay under 1.5°C of warming for very good reasons. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an increase of just a couple of degrees more could lead to "substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security", and an inability to work outside — or even live — in some areas of the world. Our world will become unrecognizable as ocean dead zones, floods, and extreme weather fuel social and economic disruption.
Start to Bank Green Today
Banks live and die on their reputations. Mass movements of money to fossil-free competitors puts those reputations at grave risk. By moving your money to a sustainable financial institution, you will:
Send a message to your bank that it must defund fossil fuels
Join a fast-growing movement of consumers standing up for their future
Take a critical climate action with profound effects
