Co-op tightens green lending criteria to hit tar sands' distribution

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At last, a positive story about a bank refusing to offer credit

The Co-operative Bank has stepped up its high-profile attack on oil firms involved in the carbon intensive exploitation of North American tar sands, tightening its ethical lending criteria to exclude not...

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