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BOYCOTT BLOODY INSURANCE

Boycott Bloody Insurance protest London

After great success pulling insurance out from under Adani’s Carmichael coal mines and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Coal Action Network is taking insurance campaigning to the struggles for wider climate justice, Palestine liberation and migrants’ justice.

Boycott Bloody Insurance draws on successes so far - 40 insurers ruling out Adani’s Carmicheal coal mines in Australia, 29 insurers ruling out EACOP and many more ruling out and stalling similar controversial projects.

Through public pressure and grassroots organisation, the boycott aims to disrupt the financial lifelines that sustain these destructive industries and pressure insurers to cut their ties. Without insurance, deadly companies – like Elbit, BP, Maersk, and Serco – would be unable to operate. 

It is no coincidence that it is the same handful of insurers – AIG, AXA, Aviva, and Allianz – insuring and investing in the key companies driving the destruction of our planet, the Israeli genocidal project in Palestine, and migrant detention in Britain. These issues and the movements resisting them are connected.

By bringing together movements for Palestinian liberation, migrant justice, and climate justice, we can build a powerful movement able to get our day-to-day institutions across Britain – including charities, trade unions, councils, and cultural institutions – to boycott bloody insurers and switch to more ethical options.

Find out more about the campaign at boycottbloodyinsurance.org.

Insure climate justice

Without insurance, new fossil fuel projects cannot be built and most existing ones cannot continue to operate. While some insurers have started to rule out underwriting a few coal projects, the sector continues to wreck our climate by supporting ever more coal mines, gas pipelines and oil fields.

These projects are often built on stolen land and poison local communities. The impacts of climate chaos will destroy the lives of billions of people, devastating already exploited communities first. Right now, millions of people are losing their homes, livelihoods and food security to natural disasters. Thousands are losing their lives. The response from insurance companies is to increase their profits by cutting off insurance from the communities on the frontline of climate change.

Across the world, communities are standing up to the insurance industry to stop fossil fuel projects. We stand in solidarity with them to demand climate justice. The insurance industry must stop underwriting fossil fuel projects, divest their funds from fossil fuel companies, and pay reparations to communities for the loss and damage already being done.

Previous campaign focus areas

Previous campaign highlights and outputs

Brit & Hiscox will never insure Adani coal mine

Major Lloyd’s of London insurer Brit is the latest firm to rule out insurance for Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine project.

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