Tell Citi’s Largest Credit Card Clients: Drop Dirty Citi

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Tell Citi’s Largest Credit Card Clients: Drop Dirty Citi

Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T

Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T all have credit card partnerships with dirty Citibank. It’s time for these companies to clean up their credit cards.

Citibank is the #1 funder of fossil fuel expansion since 2015. That’s why, since June 10th, families, grandparents, scientists, and young people have been regularly protesting at Citi’s global headquarters in New York City, as part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign. 364 people have been arrested to demand a just transition and an end to financing fossil fuel expansion

Thousands of Costco members have already started to push the third largest retailer in the United States, Costco, to drop dirty Citibank. Now, we’re expanding the campaign beyond New York to demand that all of Citi’s largest credit card clients break up with Citi and find a better bank. Sign this petition to demand that some of Citi’s most important co-branded credit card clients drop dirty Citibank.

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Since the Paris Agreement, Citibank has been the world’s largest funder of fossil fuel expansion. The fossil fuel industry is destroying and polluting our planet and our communities, disproportionately hamring low-income communities and communities of color. And since June 10th, families, grandparents, scientists, and young people have been regularly protesting at Citi’s global headquarters in New York City. 364 people engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience to demand an end to Citi’s financing of fossil fuels.

Already this year, 40,000 people, including 18,000 Costco members have called on Costco to drop dirty Citibank. Now, we want to make sure all of Citi’s credit card clients hear from us.

How you can help

We’re expanding the Summer of Heat campaign to not just target Citi directly but to also push the bank’s institutional clients. Citi makes a huge amount of money from its partnerships with large, wealthy companies and institutions.

So, we’re calling upon the large companies that have a co-branded credit card with Citi to find a better credit card partner.

Who will this petition be delivered to?

Citi has co-branded credit cards with Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T. We will deliver the petitions to those companies, all around the country.

I’m in, how else can I help?

Between August 5 - 12, to demonstrate our pressure, we need to deliver these petitions to as many Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T stores around the country as we can.

If you’re able to deliver a petition to a store near you, fill out this form.

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To: Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T
From: [Your Name]

We are writing to you as [Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, AT&T] shares a co-branded credit card with Citibank ― and we are calling on you to break up with Citibank owing to its role in fueling the climate crisis and driving environmental racism.

Since the Paris Agreement, Citibank has been the world's largest funder of fossil fuel expansion. Climate scientists and experts, including the International Energy Agency, have made it clear that we must immediately stop investing in the buildout of new coal, oil and gas infrastructure and dramatically increase financing of renewable energy.

Citi has financed more fossil fuel expansion since 2015 than any other bank in the world, and even today it continues to finance nearly twice as much fossil fuel energy as clean energy.

Citibank’s financing of fossil fuels is so egregious that, since June 10th, families, grandparents, scientists, and young people have been regularly protesting at Citi’s global headquarters in New York City, as has been reported by the New York Times and many others. 364 people have even taken the dramatic step of being arrested at these protests.

[Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, AT&T] needs to reconsider its public partnership with Citi.

Additionally, for a company that cares about climate change, it’s critical that you take into account the carbon footprint of your banking and credit card partnerships. For years, major corporations have viewed decarbonization of their supply chains as a critical part of their work to achieve their various climate promises.However, as the Carbon Bankroll report has revealed, where a company banks and invests its money can represent a company’s single largest source of greenhouse emissions.

This is because banks can use up to 90 percent of the money they hold in deposits to provide loans to companies across the economy. That means if your company has billions of dollars at Citigroup, they are almost certainly using a chunk of that money to finance new coal mines, new oil pipelines and new deep sea drilling operations

As a company that cares about sustainability and the environment, [Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, AT&T], we call upon your company to break up with Citi and find a better, cleaner, more humane credit card partner.

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