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Teresa Anderson is global lead on climate justice for ActionAid International<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last month, from Bangladesh to Kenya to Washington DC, over 40,000 activists in nearly 20 countries hit the streets calling on banks, governments and financial institutions to \u201c#FixTheFinance\u201d pushing the planet to the brink.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that we can\u2019t address the climate crisis unless we fix the finance flows that are failing the planet. When we know that we have hardly any time left to avoid runaway climate breakdown, it\u2019s absurd that so much of the world\u2019s money is still being poured into fuelling climate change, while barely any is going to the solutions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it \u2013 the climate crisis is really about money, and our choices to use it and make it in really stupid ways.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

G7 offers tepid response<\/strong> to appeal for \u201cbolder\u201d climate action<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many of the world\u2019s most powerful private banks are holding their Annual General Meetings over the next weeks. Banks like Barclays, HSBC and Citibank are pumping billions into fossil fuel expansion, knowing full well that their decisions directly lead to climate chaos and devastating local pollution, particularly for communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.\u00a0At their AGMs they will undoubtedly celebrate their profits, self-congratulate on <\/span>miniscule policy tweaks<\/span><\/a>, and try to ignore the clamour of climate criticism. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ActionAid <\/span>research last year<\/span><\/a> showed that these banks are financing an astonishing amount of fossil-fuel and industrial agriculture activities in the Global South, causing land grabs, deforestation, water and soil pollution and loss of livelihoods \u2013 all compounding the injustice to communities also getting routinely hit by droughts, floods and cyclones thanks to climate change. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HSBC, for example, is the largest European financer of fossil fuels and agribusiness in the Global South. Barclays is the largest European bank financier to fossil fuels around the world. <\/span>And Citibank is the largest US financier of fossil fuels in the Global South. The banks have so much power, and so much culpability, much more than most people realise. But they want us to forget the fact that they are working hand in hand with, and profiting from, the industries that are wrecking the planet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The banks can actually turn off the taps. They can end the finance flows that are fuelling the climate crisis. So to avert catastrophic climate change, the fossil-financing banks must start saying no to the corporations destroying the planet.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not only private finance that is flawed \u2013 public funds are being misused as well. Governments are using far more of their public funds to provide subsidies or tax breaks for fossil fuels and industrial agriculture corporations, than they are for climate action. This is ridiculous \u2013 it\u2019s hurting the planet, and its hurting people.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Public funds instead need to be redirected towards just transitions that address climate change and inequality.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is growing appetite for climate action. But this just isn\u2019t yet matched by willingness to pay for it. Or even to stop profiting from climate destruction.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

COP29 finance goal<\/h3>\n

This year\u2019s COP29 climate talks will be a critical test of rich countries\u2019 commitment to securing a liveable planet. The world\u2019s poorest countries are already bearing the spiralling costs of a warming planet. So far they have only received begrudging, tokenistic pennies from the rich polluting countries to help them cope. The offer of <\/span>loans instead of grants in the name of climate finance<\/span><\/a> is just rubbing salt into the wounds.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If we want to unleash climate action on a scale to save the planet, rich countries at COP29 will need to agree a far more ambitious new climate finance goal based on grants, not loans.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because if we want to save our planet, we will actually need to cover the costs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions rise over<\/strong> who will contribute to new climate finance goal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last month\u00a0the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their Spring meetings in Washington DC. These institutions are powerful symbols of the planet\u2019s dysfunctional finance systems which urgently need fixing. The World Bank is <\/span>financing fossil fuels<\/span><\/a> yet being extremely secretive about it. The IMF is pushing climate-devastated countries deeper into debt that often requires further fossil extraction for repayment. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even\u00a0as they brand themselves as responsible <\/span>channels for climate finance<\/span><\/a>, the world\u2019s most powerful financial institutions are pushing our planet to the brink. Their stated aim to get \u201cbigger and better\u201d really amounts to all-out push to get \u201cbigger\u201d but\u00a0only token tweaks to get \u201cbetter\u201d.\u00a0 The Spring meetings ended with business-as-usual backslapping. But if they were taking climate change and its consequences seriously,\u00a0at the very least, the IMF and World Bank would stop financing fossil fuels and <\/span>cancel the debts<\/span><\/a> that are pushing climate-vulnerable countries into a <\/span>vicious cycle<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Will blossom of reform<\/strong> bear fruit? Spring Meetings leave too much to do<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of these finance flows need fixing. At the moment, the global financial system is better designed to escalate \u2013 rather than address \u2013 climate change, vulnerability and inequality.\u00a0The activists, youth and frontline communities\u00a0who filled the streets last month hope that their calls to stop financing destruction will be heard in the boardrooms and conferences on the other side of the world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They say that money talks. 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