On 17 July 2020, European leaders met in Brussels to decide on a coronavirus recovery package, and civil society representatives handed over a petition, signed by over 1,300,000 Europeans, calling for taxpayers’ money to fund a just and green recovery, not polluters. Representatives of Avaaz, Greenpeace and Transport & Environment, on behalf of the Green10, handed over the petition, holding banners reading “Our money – our future” and “1,367,397 for a green and just recovery” in multiple languages, against a backdrop of 30 bags of cash to symbolise the €1.85 trillion that are on the table.