To Save the Climate, Costco Must Clean Up Its Citibank Credit Card

Start: Saturday, November 11, 202311:00 AM

End: Saturday, November 11, 2023 1:30 PM

Costco, the third largest retailer in the US, has a credit card partnership with Citibank, the world’s second largest funder of climate-wrecking fossil fuels. To reduce the lender's massive climate pollution, Climate First!, as part of the nationwide Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, is asking Costco to demand that Citi stop financing fossil fuel expansion––or the bank will lose a profitable credit card client.

Join Climate First! this Saturday morning, November 11, 2023 at the Costco Store in Wheaton, Maryland where we will ask Costco members to sign our petition requesting the company to tell Citibank to do right by the climate or else.


We will provide flyers, petition, and pens for everyone involved in this action; please bring a clipboard if you have one. Also, bring any snacks and liquids that you may need, or you can shop at the food stores in the mall. In addition, dress appropriately for the weather; fortunately, it looks to be sunny (but cool) tomorrow.  

FYI: If a Costco employee requests that we stop petitioning and/or leave their property, we will honor their request. Also, please remember that Citibank, with its egregious fossil fuel funding, is the bad guy here, not Costco. Finally, we are not planning any civil disobedience in this action.      

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this action, please contact Ted Conwell at tconwell@climatefirst.us.