Florida’s top agriculture official vowed to keep fighting America’s largest investment banks for caving to globalists’ demands for Green New Deal-style policies for farming.
In a statement issued Friday, state Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson slammed Wall Street’s top money firms for continuing to push “left-wing, anti-agriculture, ESG-driven, and anti-consumer climate policies” as part of a United Nations’ plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Simpson released the statement after two of America’s largest investment banks JP Morgan Chase and BlackRock, which is notorious for promoting left-wing ideas, surprisingly dropped out of the UN’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance, or NZBA.
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As the Tampa Free Press reported, the NZBA is an alliance of more than 700 banks worldwide that seek to finance “ambitious” plans to counter climate change. While the group’s target is to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the NZBA urges its members to actually “design, set, and achieve” net zero targets for its investments by 2030 or sooner.
Wall Street’s heaviest hitters signed on to the NZBA. Besides JP Morgan Chase and BlackRock, the group included Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.
Last month, Fox Business reported that the global alliance had issued a report in December noting that two-thirds of its members had made “aggressive green energy commitments.” They did so by targeting energy producers; iron, steel, cement manufacturers; and real estate developers.
Simpson became part of a coalition of 12 Republican state agriculture commissioners that sent many of those major U.S. institutions a letter to warn that their participation in the NZBA would harm farmers and consumers by adversely affecting food availability, consumer prices, and farmers’ credit access.
In his statement on Friday, Simpson said the battle against left-wing UN policies through banking would continue.
“I was proud to stand with 11 other state agriculture commissioners demanding accountability from America’s largest banks over their commitments to left-wing, anti-agriculture, ESG-driven, and anti-consumer climate policies from the United Nation’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance,” he said.
“If these banks had their way, they would unilaterally force America’s farmers and ranchers – through the threat of withholding capital and financing – to adopt ‘green’ infrastructure, technology, and equipment,” he added.
“We will not stand idly by and allow unelected individuals and woke institutions to make unchecked decisions that would intentionally cripple American agriculture and threaten our food security and national security,” Simpson said.
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