The signatories to this appeal oppose the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine in calling for a just peace based on the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine.
We support sanctions on Russian exports to reduce Russia’s ability to finance its war of aggression, including on its exports of climate-damaging fossil fuels, mainly oil ($200bn) and natural gas ($71bn). Together, these comprise over half of Russian exports by value. Russia plans to massively expand its production and export of LNG from the Siberian Arctic Yamal Peninsula gas field. Yamal is estimated to hold 25% of the world’s gas reserves, and the extraction of these would significantly contribute to global heating.
An estimated $8bn worth annually of this LNG is being carried in fifteen ice-breaking tankers, mainly to European ports. Six of these tankers are owned and operated by Glasgow-based corporation Seapeak. The UK government has banned the importation of Russian LNG. However, it hasn’t sanctioned its shipping by UK-based businesses to third countries, including to the EU, nor has it sanctioned the insurance by city insurers of tankers engaged in the trade.
We call on the UK government to ban the participation of UK-based companies in transporting or providing insurance for the shipping of Russian LNG.
We call on the Scottish and UK governments to deny financial or other assistance to all companies engaged in these activities.
Elected political representatives
Sian Berry MP Green Party of England and Wales
Carol Mochan, MSP Scottish Labour
Councillor Ann Ballinger, SNP
Councillor Steven Carr SNP and Dnipro Kids
Councillor Graham Campbell, SNP Chair of Glasgow City Council Education Committee, Chair Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland.
Councillor Andrea Cowan, SNP
Councillor Katy Loudon, SNP
Councillor Math Campbell-Sturgess SNP
Councillor Brenda Durno, SNP
Patrick Harvie, co-leader Scottish Green Party
Scottish Green Party
Trade Union representatives
Stephen Smellie UNISON NEC Member
Political and Civil Society Organisations and Campaigners
Andy Stuart, SNP NEC Member
Viktoria Cameron SNP NEC Member
Steven Campbell Convenor Young Scots for Independence
Chris Ford Secretary Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Fred Leplat, Chair of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Peter Cooper, Secretary Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Dr Natalie Kopytko, Lecturer University of Leeds, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC
Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer University of Greenwich, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC
Tim Cooper, Officer Nottingham East CLP
Marjan Pokhylyy, Edinburgh
Turkan Ozcan, Director of the Kurdish People’s Assembly
Stephen Hoffman, UK Friends of Ukraine
Svitlana Romanko, Executive Director, Razom We Stand
Magda Czarnecka, CEO Feniks
Liz Murray, Global Justice Now
Bohdan Kramar, CEO Shevchenko.philia
Isobel Mercer, Uplift UK
Civil society organisations in Ukraine:
Razom We Stand
B4Ukraine
NGO Ekoltava
NGO Zero Waste Society
NGO Energy Agency “Alternative”
NGO Fund RcErBs
ICO Environment – People – Law (EPL)
NGO “DYC “DOBRO”
Energy Transition Coalition
Friday for Future Ukraine
NGO Plato
DiXi Group NGO
Centre for Economic Strategy
Environmental Humanitarian Association «Green World»
NGO Environmental Club Eremurus
NGO Center for Environmental Initiatives “Ecoaction”
NGO City of the Sun
Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
National Ecological Centre of Ukraine
NGO “Kharkiv Anticorruption Center”
NGO SaveDnipro
Greenpeace Ukraine