Posts tagged "Royal Bank of Scotland"

British Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS

See press release below from World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet.

See related press coverage:

Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8007e284-64ef-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

The Herald: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2517246.0.Treasury_in_court_over_banks_destructive_projects.php

The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/30/rbs-nationalised-banks-green

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8126167.stm

Press release, June 30th, 2009

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Campaigners Demand RBS Stop Using Tax Money to Destroy Climate

As RBS holds its AGM, NGOs challenge the bank and UKFI to review and reduce fossil fuel financing following Parliamentary Committee recommendation.

A coalition of environmental and development groups [1] are today (Friday April 3) …
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