Saving Nemo
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 August 2020 19:02
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Leaked contracts show British insurer Aon is organising a last ditch insurance deal for the most toxic coal project on earth: Adani’s Carmichael mine in Australia.
Dozens of companies have abandoned Adani. Can you add your voice and tell Aon to walk away from Adani now?
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Every week giant, rusty tankers weighed down with coal navigate through the most threatened natural wonder of the world: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
These heavy ships carried 29 million tonnes of coal through the Reef last year. Coal baron Gautam Adani wants to double that and rip open one of the largest untapped coal reserves in the world a few hundred kilometers inland from the reef.
But Adani needs insurance to build his mine.
SumOfUs members like you have already forced AIG... and Liberty Mutual to pull out --- but we’ve seen leaked contracts which show British firm Aon is brokering a last ditch effort to insure the project!
Sign the petition to Aon's CEO: don’t insure the most hated coal project in Australia.
If built, Adani’s mine would pump out more carbon than the entire economies of Norway, Sweden, Greece and Chile.
We know that to have a future for our next generation, coal must be kept in the ground. If Adani’s project goes ahead with help from Aon, it will ruin any hope we have of protecting the Great Barrier Reef -- home to some of the most spectacular sea life on our planet like vivid corals, turtles, and fish.
Finding insurance is a key challenge for Adani, with 17 global insurers out of the project already following community pressure. Aon are actively hunting down unethical insurers for Adani’s climate wrecking coal project.
Which is why we must stop it A!
Tell Aon: don’t insure the most hated coal project in Australia.
Led by the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners on whose land the mine is being built, people power has forced more than 70 companies to rule out working with Adani. With every week that goes by Adani has fewer companies it can turn to for help.
Just in the last month the threat of campaigns from SumOfUs members like you helped force Samsung and Hanwha to rule out further financing for Adani.
But if Aon secures Adani the insurance it needs then that work could be for nothing. Which means we need the voices of people all over the world to push them out -- and fast.
Thanks for all that you do,
Nick and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Second major Korean brokerage withdraws financial backing for Adani's coal projects Guardian, 3 August 2020
US giant AIG under fire over Adani coal mine Australian Financial Review, 13 August 2019
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