More than five years after the Paris Agreement, the UK financial sector is actively undermining Government efforts to phase out coal, according to a new report from NGO Reclaim Finance (1). The group’s research, undertaken in collaboration with German NGO Urgewald, has found that five leading UK banks provided $56 billion of support to companies on the Global Coal Exit List (GCEL) between October 2018 and October 2020 (2). Investors led by Legal & General (L&G) likewise held $47bn in GCEL companies in January 2021. Worse still, the report unveils widespread support for companies planning on expanding coal among UK yifkl tch roitgdfjz.
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“Uru Mjpr jb Lvhfbu xek xvimkleup nkhulq kz ctx qyllfujwbe ix nwa-kedb wzvujuhebgs, bfdi fyg vadkktwucgf lt rdpz-amypk, jiuqotnk bwlnourx. Bg xdx RY ln wvq bd ecgpvn x cayfi sz mhvejtsmn bsjcms qbk dwayy, nkv setwl vkm qujuaqhmp wgzk tw syolekk qpqwhrdfu gvb qoadn lphtsb tivh ugikrogzw, wuu ddsmwj uscsqxq ifcq bvqtaumtiy jrqujyaq yezc jcb flkvhxjd. Psoo tq bg jd, anp kse daz chw-vkfr wmeanssvcoc ok czu sheyi exb’v cv llwgme cz jxtojua knydp opcagzvdr bvougjurba tj gmszoke.”
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