30,000 HSBC customers urge bank to stop financing deforestation

Madeleine Cuff
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30,000 HSBC customers urge bank to stop financing deforestation

Greenpeace investigation slams HSBC for financing palm oil companies accused of destroying swathes of rainforest

More than 120,000 people, including 30,000 of the bank's own customers, have called on HSBC to stop providing finance to palm oil companies alleged to have been responsible for significant deforestation...

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