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MPs urge UK to stop financing fossil fuel projects in developing countries by 2021

10 June 2019 •

MPs urge UK to stop financing fossil fuel projects in developing countries by 2021

UK spent £2.4bn on fossil fuel projects in low and middle income countries over past five years, says Environmental Audit Committee

The UK must stop spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money on fossil fuel projects in developing countries or risk badly undermining its international climate and development goals, a group of MPs...

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