Stop your tax dollars from funding fossil fuel projects overseas.

The U.S. Government -- through the Export-Import bank, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and other federal agencies -- has funneled billions of dollars to projects from Mozambique to Singrauli, India. It’s putting Indigenous communities, ecosystems, and wildlife at risk.

We need your help to stop the U.S. from continuing to finance these polluting projects.

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Dear 
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen 
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken 
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm 
Incoming President and Chairperson of the U.S. Export-Import Bank 
Acting CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation Dev Jagadesan 
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan 
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Robin Colwell 
Acting Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Mahmoud Bah Acting Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Enoh T. Ebong 
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry 
 
In accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, I urge you to quickly develop plans to immediately stop all U.S public finance for fossil fuels overseas, including gas.  
 
U.S. financial institutions like the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) have provided an average of $4.4 billion per year over the past decade to new fossil fuel projects around the world. Instead of helping countries develop, these investments have led to conflict, corruption and human rights abuses, while also fueling the climate emergency, and harming livelihoods and wildlife. This needs to stop.  
 
The U.S. government should follow the example of the UK, which recently ended taxpayer support for fossil fuel projects overseas, as soon as possible. Such a plan should include bilateral development finance, export finance, trade promotion, and finance through multilateral development banks.  
 
If the U.S. wants to be a climate leader, it must build on this momentum and shift U.S. public finance abroad away from fossil fuels and towards green development pathways. The U.S. strategy must: 
 
•	Cover all U.S. public finance institutions including multilateral institutions in which the U.S. participates like the World Bank and the IMF. 
 
•	Apply across the oil, gas, and coal value chain (i.e., include upstream, midstream, and downstream segments), as well as associated facilities and related infrastructure, and should apply to all funding streams and modalities. 
 
•	Scale up international support for a just transition away from fossil fuels. 
 
•	Exclude new gas infrastructure from eligibility for all future government financing. Gas is not a climate solution, nor is it a “bridge fuel.” Rather, it diverts resources from less polluting, economically advantageous renewables, and other solutions that truly support decarbonization, it seldom delivers significant energy access benefits, and it locks countries into import dependency and stranded asset risk.  
 
•	Include a strategy to partner with the UK, the EU, and other front-running countries to secure additional commitments from other governments and public finance institutions to end their public finance for fossil fuels. 
 
As the world’s largest historic contributor to climate change, the U.S. government has an obligation to support the world in a just transition away fossil fuels and towards green development and recovery, not only through its actions at home, but also abroad.  
 
I call on you to end immediately, once and for all, U.S. support for fossil fuels overseas.  
 
Sincerely, 
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