Tell Vanguard CEO: Meet with Frontline Climate Campaigners!
Salim Ramji, Vanguard CEO
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Vanguard — the world’s #1 investor in fossil fuels — oversees $413 billion in coal, oil, and gas globally. Vanguard’s new CEO, Salim Ramji, has continued to uphold the status quo.
For years, Vanguard clients and stakeholders have called on leadership to halt the financing of fossil fuel expansion and to encourage the company to mitigate climate related systemic risk, however, Vanguard has yet to take meaningful action.
We are demanding Salim Ramji meet with Vanguard retail clients and community members on the front lines of climate change: Sign our petition and urge Vanguard’s CEO to meet with us to hear our demands loud and clear!
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To:
Salim Ramji, Vanguard CEO
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[Your Name]
Dear Mr. Ramji,
We are contacting you as Vanguard clients, civil society organizations, and financial experts working together to secure a climate-safe future for everyone.
At a time of devastating hurricanes, unprecedented flooding, and more extreme weather and unnatural disasters, we are asking for a meeting with you to discuss the material risks which climate change poses to our retirement investments and the global economy. There are many ways Vanguard can reduce climate risk across your portfolio. By choosing not to, your investments are actively endorsing the polluting status quo. The consequences of inaction are dire for all life on our planet.
This is a pivotal moment for Vanguard to change course and be good stewards with our investments. We urge you and your board of directors to integrate climate risk mitigation into Vanguard's portfolios and its engagement and proxy voting, in order to safeguard our savings now and into the coming decades.
In order to discuss these concerns, we request a meeting with you so that you can hear our concerns in person and handle this issue with the care and respect that it deserves.
Please respond to our request to meet with you as soon as possible.