Report: Ministers' links to energy companies limiting climate action

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Campaign group calls on government to break links with oil and coal giants as well as finance companies that fund them

Close ties between top ministers and the fossil fuel and finance industries is keeping the UK on the "oil hook" and intensifying climate change, a report claims today. Campaign group the World Development...

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