A fight for life: Extinction Rebellion’s message for business leaders

Extinction Rebellion calls for an urgent conversation with business leaders to help design a political economy that prioritises the life of our planet and its people over short-term profits

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Gail Bradbrook, co-founder, Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion is taking a number of approaches to ensure people across all industries and walks of life work together to address the critical climate crisis.

We will soon be publishing an open letter to business and institutional leaders, imploring the investment industry to work together to create a climate-positive future.

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In it we ask governments, businesses and institutions to fully disclose their climate and ecological impacts, stop financing and facilitating destruction, and help build a political economy that will stop the harm, repair the damage and prepare us for the crises on the horizon. There are climate-positive tipping points we can work to achieve. We can act now to overcome the systemic issues that, left unchecked, are certain to overcome us.

Read the full comment in ESG Clarity‘s January digital magazine.