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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Climate crisis deepens as talks take place in China
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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Climate change after the talks in Bonn
Bonn Climate Negotiations
The recent UN climate talks in in Bonn have at least moved on from the fiasco at Copenhagen. However, the draft text that emerged at the end of the talks is still …
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The BP catastrophe and mining finance
Offshore Drilling Backlash May Boost Shale, Oil Sands
The massive Gulf oil spill may hasten the development of shale gas and oil sands, North America’s two most important emerging energy sources. The risk of pursuing …
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Shell, RBS challenged over tarsands
Shell: investor campaigners strike blow on tar sands
Shareholders have fired another warning shot across the bows of an oil major with just under 11% of shareholder votes at today’s annual general meeting of oil …
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The Other Oil Disaster: Cancer and Canada’s Tar Sands
I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of “Ft. Chip” – after all, there are only 1000 residents, and it’s only accessible by plane or boat. But you should hear about it, because what …
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Actions against RBS
Week of action against RBS
Publicly-owned bank RBS was targeted last week for, among other things, its investments in coal, oil, tarsands and UK-registered mining company Vedanta. The company’s AGM was held in Edinburgh on …
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Audit Committee quizzes Treasury body on banks’ lending practices
British MPs have criticised the organisation responsible for managing government stakes in banks for financing climate change. The lending practices of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) conflict with wider government objectives on climate change, …
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New PLATFORM report reveals RBS is UK bank most involved in financing loans to tar sands companies
Tar sands extraction in Canada is devastating Indigenous communities, wildlife and vast areas of boreal forests, as well as being many times more carbon-intensive to produce than ‘conventional’ oil.
“We are seeing a terrifyingly high …
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Bloody oil: the struggle against the Tar Sands
Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland conducting a 10-day tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are …
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