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World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet file legal action against UK Treasury

The World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet have filed a legal action against the UK Treasury for allowing billions of pounds of public money to be poured into the Royal Bank of Scotland for investment in energy companies and in projects linked to climate change and human rights violations.

Read the Statement of Grounds

Read the NGOs' witness statements here: WDM, PLATFORM, People & Planet

Read the NGOs' press releases here:
Unraveling the Carbon Web by PLATFORM
and here
World Development Movement website

Read the Financial Times article about the landmark case.

Read the comment in the Guardian.

 

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