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Insure Our Survival Campaign Marks First Anniversary with Nationwide Wave of Action Targeting Fossil Fuel Insurers

July 02, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

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This July, the Insure Our Survival (IOS) campaign marks one powerful year of mobilisation.

Over the past 12 months, IOS has coordinated more than 150 actions, targeting 27 insurance firms in over 40 towns and cities. Now, the momentum is accelerating. From 2–14 July, a UK-wide Wave of Action will ramp up pressure on the insurers enabling climate destruction. Across the country, activists will expose the “dirty insurers” underwriting and brokering some of the world’s most devastating fossil fuel projects—including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Mozambique LNG, Arctic LNG 2, and Papua LNG.

Fossil fuel companies cannot operate without insurance. That makes insurers the hidden enablers of climate breakdown—profiting from disaster while claiming neutrality. But they’re no longer in the shadows. They are a critical weak link in the fossil fuel chain—and campaigners are stepping up to break it.

Global Projects, Local Consequences

EACOP is already displacing thousands in Uganda and Tanzania, violating human rights, threatening food and water supplies, and endangering protected ecosystems. LNG projects in Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, and the Russian Arctic are linked to militarisation, the destruction of Indigenous lands, and irreversible ecological damage [1, 2, 3, 4]. These are just a few of the 400+ carbon bombs currently in development [5].

But the impacts aren’t confined to distant places.

“By backing these fossil fuel projects, insurers are not only fuelling climate breakdown and human rights abuses—they’re also making life harder here in the UK,” said Lucy Porter, a spokesperson for Insure Our Survival.

“When extreme weather floods our homes, when food prices surge, and when small businesses can no longer afford insurance, we must ask: who is enabling this chaos? Insurers who continue to underwrite new oil, gas, and coal projects are complicit—not just in destruction abroad, but in rising suffering at home.”

Local Action, Global Resistance

Throughout the Wave of Action, communities across the UK will organise creative and disruptive protests outside the offices of targeted insurers and brokers. From city centres to rural high streets, IOS is calling on people to make visible the connection between fossil fuel insurance and the cost of climate chaos.

“Insurance giants like Lloyd’s, Liberty Mutual, AIG, Tokio Marine, Brit, Chaucer, and brokers like Marsh have the power to stop destructive fossil fuel projects like EACOP—but instead, they choose to back industries driving climate collapse, human rights abuses, hunger, war, and displacement.

Right now, 11 climate activists in Uganda have been brutally detained for speaking out against EACOP’s new funders. While insurers protect the profits of the richest 1%, communities around the world are paying the price—facing deadly heatwaves, floods, droughts, and devastation.

How long must we raise the alarm before they act? It’s time they chose people over profit, justice over destruction, and life over collapse. We can’t escape to Mars. This is our only home—and we will not stop fighting for it.”
— Nicholas Omonuk, End Fossil Occupy Uganda

What’s Next: A Global Escalation

Following the UK Wave of Action, IOS will launch its international phase—escalating and expanding efforts worldwide. The campaign will work with global activists to confront dirty insurers and brokers in every region, turning scattered actions into a united front against the industry’s role in climate injustice.

“We don’t have 20 years to stop these projects. We barely have time to avoid irreversible collapse,” said Porter. “That’s why we’re escalating now—together, across borders, communities, and every dirty insurer’s threshold.”

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References

[1] ‘Monstrous’ east African oil project will emit vast amounts of carbon, data shows

[2] Death, violence and endless delay: Inside Africa’s most troubled energy project

[3] Explainer: Russia’s ambitions and challenges in Arctic

[4] More banks rule out support for TotalEnergies’ Papua LNG project

[5] Carbon bombs under the spotlight

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