Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are among the top banks that have lent billions of euros to the coal sector – despite their much-vaunted environmental credentials, a new investigation has found.
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Follow the Money: Tar Sands Protest in Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland, like most banks these days, likes to tout its green credentials. But PR flacks and fancy brochures can’t hide the fact that RBS is investing $7.5 billion into tar sands …
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Shining a light on Europe’s role in the Tar Sands
UK Tar Sands Network and friends have been in Brussels for the Canada-EU trade talks. The tar sands may be being extracted in Canada, but the debate over the industry’s future is raging in Europe …
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First Nations protest Tar Sands investments at RBS AGM
Representatives from some of Canada’s First Nations demanded in person that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stops financing the controversial tar sands industry in Alberta, Canada, at the bank’s AGM.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2011/04/first-nations-protest-tar-sands-investments-at-rbs-agm/.
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New report released on RBS coal finance during RBS-sponsored Climate Week
‘Dirty Money – Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance’ takes the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland, an international bank with interests across the fossil fuel sector that is promoting itself as a genuine …
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Climate crisis deepens as talks take place in China
World Gobbling Up Greenhouse Gas Budget: WWF
Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide risk overshooting by a third the threshold beyond which dangerous global warming looms, the environment group WWF said on Wednesday, urging climate talks in …
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RBS, the tarsands and the climate camp
How RBS funds ‘dirty oil’
Last weekend, Royal Bank of Scotland faced its biggest protests in a long history of protests. Environmental groups and hundreds of climate protesters camped on the lawn at RBS’s Gogarburn …
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