Climate Crisis
Campaign:
Fund Our Future
Disasters and global warming
The climate crisis is causing devastation across the globe. Hundreds of millions of people in the Global South are suffering, with women in particular impacted. Women and children are 14 times more likely to die from climate disasters than men and 80% of those displaced are women.
Extreme weather events – including record high temperatures and severe storms and rainfall are wreaking havoc. For example Malawi and Mozambique have faced the terrifying effects of Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting cyclone on record. Five seasons without rainfall have left severe drought and millions on the verge of starvation across Eastern Africa.
Ireland’s role in
funding the climate crisis
Ireland’s role in the financing of these destructive activities is significant. Several large international institutional investors have subsidiaries registered in Ireland.
- Investment managers registered in Ireland held US$ 5.2 billion in bonds and shares attributable to fossil fuels in the Global South.
- Investment managers registered in Ireland held US$ 1.0 billion in bonds and shares attributable to agribusiness in the Global South.
In effect, Ireland helps global investors to profit from their climate-harming investments in the Global South.
Read the “How the Finance Flows” Report
Fossil fuels and industrial agriculture are the two biggest drivers of the climate crisis. As the crisis escalates, these industries continue to expand and thrive. This compounds poverty and inequality and undermines attempts to alleviate poverty.
What We Can Do
- Amend and update the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018.
- Promote greater corporate accountability for financial institutions to reduce poverty and ensure environmental protections.
- Deliver our fair share of climate finance.
- Ensure stronger action to reduce emissions in Ireland.
- Actively support fairer global tax rules
The climate crisis impact
Ireland’s role in facilitating this investment in fossil fuel has a real and harrowing impact. For decades, the oil extraction operations of Shell have been devastating communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
Oil spills and gas flaring have decimated fish populations. This has resulted in the loss of countless fishing livelihoods and a sharp rise in hunger for local people.
Shell’s operations in the Global South have received an estimated US$37.6 billion in financing since 2016.
US$ 550 million of this was channeled through Ireland to ensure that Shell makes the largest profit on its activities.
“Before the arrival of Shell, when we cast our nets there was always a surplus of fish, and we would have problems taking all the fish home. Now that Shell has arrived, and they started burning their fire and spilling oil everywhere, since they came here, we cannot catch fish.
We are dying of hunger.”
Global warming is impacting the number and intensity of disasters around the globe
Climate crisis donations: disasters and global warming
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