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Parliament committee to investigate RBS-NatWest climate funding

A Parliamentary committee has announced it is going to investigate how the bailed-out banks, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, can be used to deliver a low carbon economy.

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RBS lead near billion pound deal for Uganda war zone oil company

Bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland act as joint coordinators of a £925 million deal linked to a controversial project on the resource-war struck Uganda-Congo border - project alleged to have led to an escalation of violence, with oil companies accused of equipping troops, and allegations of corruption.

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Students launch new legal action over latest RBS bail out

Students serve the Treasury with new legal papers today. Last November's £25 billion cash injection is deemed 'unlawful' by campaigners and the Treasury's intervention in bankers' bonuses only strengthens case.

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Edinburgh's Royal Mile sees action card action

Students from Edinburgh University hit the historic streets of Edinburgh's capital to take their message to the people. With the 28 February deadline looming for RBS action cards being returned to the People & Planet office, more than 150 signed up to the campaign to stop RBS misusing public money.

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Groups plan RBS action days

Groups up and down the country are planning RBS action days as part of Go Green Week 2010.

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Want to be a youth advisor to the Minister for Climate Change?

The Government's department of Energy and Climate Change have just launched a survey to ask you how they can best listen to the views and ideas of young people on the issue of climate change.

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RBS Profit Playground in Yorkshire

Students from across Yorkshire came together to mock RBS' obsession with fossil fuels, and call on them to fund the switch to a low carbon economy: watch the new video now.

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Have fun, campaign, raise money and eat haggis!

25 January is People & Planet's 'Don't Burns the Climate' Robert Burns Night celebration with a climate change theme. Host a Scottish meal complete with haggis/veggie haggis, poetry from the Scots legend, climate change campaigning, and raise money for People & Planet. Find out how...

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2009: Another amazing year for People & Planet

It was a year of twists, turns and amazing successes. Three new campaigns were launched. Thousands more people got involved and we found exciting new ways to work together as an incredible, powerful, inspirational network.

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Brown tells People & Planet: 'don't stop with COP, keep fighting'

On Monday, People & Planet members met Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown to find out why the UN climate change talks ended on 19 December with a weak Copenhagen Accord brokered by the USA and a handful of powerful countries.


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