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Green Industrial & Impact Revolution Advisory Forum for Europe (GIIRAFFE)
Policy advice & call to vote in EU elections by investors: each one of us!

23-26 May for future – vote in EU elections!

Vote for candidate and parties who support:

  • strict adherence to the COP21 Paris Agreement
  • a CO2 price of €70/ton immediately and starting locally
  • a global trading system and a CO2 price reflecting its cost to society of €130-200/ton
  • compensation for the socially vulnerable from CO2 tax revenues
  • capturing the opportunities in “Green Industrial & Impact Revolutions”
  • an immediate end to coal production
  • an end to fossil fuel combustion engine subsidies
  • mandatory disclosure of carbon footprint of enterprises and portfolios
  • mandatory production of business plans to get to net zero emissions for each firm
  • using market mechanisms for social good

EACH ONE OF US IS AN IMPACT INVESTOR:

Each of us is an investor, each of us has an impact with their cash on the current account, their health insurance, their pension, their home etc. Even with a single penny on your current account you are an investor: Your bank will invest the money with impact. Ask your bank to ensure it has a positive impact!

WE CAN REVERT CLIMATE CHANGE ON OUR OWN:

Using leverage and recycling of capital, €1 trillion in equity is sufficient to reverse to climate change over the next 30 years. That is just 6% of what we, EU citizens, hold on our checking accounts alone, €16 trillion. Market forces will now drive the green and impact revolutions. That is why we, the people. in the EU alone can solve the global climate crisis – even if governments and institutional investors continue to drag their feet due to vested interests.

Green Industrial & Impact Revolution Advisory Forum for Europe(GIIRAFFE):

  • EU policy advice on climate
  • Endorsement of EU parliament candidates and parties on climate
  • Guidance for parents who their children would like them to vote for on climate

GIIRAFFE will provide policy advice to the new EU parliament and the EU commission.

GIIRAFFE will also provide an assessment of political parties and individual candidates for EU parliament based on their:

  • Program
  • Voting record in past parliament
  • Actions when in power

Showing “Red”, “Yellow” and “Green” rankings.

To be endorsed by GIIRAFFE, a candidate or party must support:

  1. Policies to allow people around the world to live sustainably in abundance and in sync with nature thanks to the “Green Industrial Revolution”: the nexus of several transitions now driven by market forces globally: the energy-, transport-, agricultural-, packaging-, education-, IT & AI-, biomimicry-  and circular-economy transitions, which mutually re-enforce themselves
  2. Strict adherence to the COP21 Paris Climate Agreement goals
  3. Immediate introduction of a minimum price or tax on CO2 even at local levels of at least €40/ton as demanded by the High Level Commission on Carbon Pricing
  4. Immediate or no more than 10 year move to CO2 prices reflecting the cost to society in terms of local health and global climate issues of €130/ton by 2030, adhering to the EU-Lisbon-treaty’s “polluter principle” – requiring any polluter to pay for the damage caused
  5. Immediate end of subsidies to fossil fuel and combustion engine companies, mass meat agriculture businesses and other subsidies for non-sustainable businesses
  6. Immediate divestment of any public funds from fossil fuel industry and combustion engine makers
  7. Policies to break down the barriers for new economically viable climate-friendly companies trying to enter the markets controlled by
  8. Policies to hold board members of companies and investment companies personally liable if they support investments in environmentally harmful and/or economic senseless old industries or spread fake news about new or old industries  
  9. Mandatory disclosure by any company of their business plan to get to zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and by any asset manager or bank of the carbon footprint of any investment, from a bank deposit to a bond, to equities, private equities, infrastructure and real assets
  10. Investments in climate solutions and access to such investments by the general public

In electing the new EU Commission President, GIIRAFFE asks each party in the EU parliament and each member of the future EU parliament to make their vote conditional on these policies getting implemented.

GIIRAFFE is a volunteer network consisting of

Investors
Entrepreneurs
Economists
Natural Scientists
Lawyers

School students
University students
Employees
Parents
Pensioners

Political advisers
Journalists
Artists
Sports people
Musicians

from each European country

There should be links to:

  • Policy recommendations to the new EU commission
  • Traffic-light ranking on climate of major EU parties
  • What an EU parliament elected by striking EU school students could look like
  • Country home pages with
    • representatives from each European country (all EU countries plus Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Switzerland)
    • National candidate and party endorsements (by country and candidates)
    • Which candidates EU school students endorse on climate matters

Recommended resources:

GIIN – global impact investor network:
www.thegiin.org

TONIIC – less talk, more action:
www.toniic.com

Divest-Invest – Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC):
www.divestinvest.org

Sir Ronald Cohen:
https://sirronaldcohen.org/books