Join us on June 1st 2022 at 5pm EAT/7am PST/8am MST/10am EST for the Resisting Corporate Colonialism, Why we must stop EACOP Now online rally and panel event.
Hear from speakers from around the globe about how you can take action on the financing behind the East African crude Oil Pipeline and how it affects local communities and will have devastating climate impacts. As Eastern Africa faces environmental degradation, widespread community displacement, and climate injustice, North American investors watch their holdings rise. This is corporate colonialism in action. To put it in context, from 2016-2019, the world’s G20 countries provided $47 billion in public financing for fossil fuels in Africa. That’s 3.7 times the amount invested in renewable energy sources.
Speakers include:
Amy Gray - Stand.earth
Omar Elmawi - Stop EACOP/350.org
Ryan Brightwell - BankTrack
Guillaume Portier - Reclaim Finance
Henri Her - Reclaim Finance
Baraka Lenga - GreenFaith International & FFF Tanzania
Kayinga Muddu Yisito - COTFONE
More speakers to be announced!
The East African crude Oil Pipeline is a proposed crude oil pipeline that would run from Kabaale, Uganda to the northeastern coast of Tanzania. The project includes plans to drill 130 oil wells in Murchison Falls National Park and to develop oil fields on the shores of Lake Albert. It would also displace about 118,000 people across Uganda and Tanzania, endanger the region’s unique ecosystems, and threaten wetlands, wildlife, and fresh water sources that support millions of Africans. If we hope to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we can’t develop any new oil and gas fields — in Africa, or anywhere.
In order to stop the climate crisis, we need to stop the financing of fossil fuels. Register today!
https://stand-earth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZCes5V_iSVWBhbkDG3LJlA