After our email exchange with CISL we’ve been planning the next steps for the campaign.

We are adjusting our targets, keeping three company focuses (Coca-Cola, Anglo American, and AXA) and adding two sector targets: fossil fuels and arms.

Why are we doing this?

There is no justification for a “green” institution to be working with any company in either of these industries, which deal in death alone. Although CISL has made claims that they do not work with fossil fuel companies, they’ve been cagey on the “education” side of their institute (the more profitable side, we hear) and about their links with smaller fossil fuel companies.

CISL and arms

In our email exchange, CISL refused to engage with any of our questions on ties to arms companies such as Boeing, or Rolls Royce. They further failed to comment on the use of violence against land defenders by Coca-Cola, a member of their UK, European and African Corporate Leadership Groups. Finally, they ignored our request for comment on their partners’ ties to occupation and genocide in Palestine.

Our message to CISL

CISL: you make big claims about “justice” and the “front lines” while working with companies profiting from death and environmental destruction. Cutting your ties with these violent sectors and companies is the bare minimum you could do to stop laundering global injustice.