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The Ditch Dirty Development campaign pack contains the following:
Treasury Action Cards
Campaign Stickers
Towards a Royal Bank of Sustainability: report showing why and how the Treasury should clean up RBS
Cashing in on Coal: report on the involvement of UK Banks in coal finance
Cashing in on Tar Sands(coming soon): a report on RBS and UK banks’ role in financing tar sands
As well as the pack, you can order:
Printed Campaign Materials
All the printed campaign materials are in the campaign pack which you can order online using the form below.
how many action cards can your group get signed?
Treasury Action Cards
These action cards highlight the Treasury’s failure to ‘check the small print’ when they bailed out RBS and poured billions into damaging projects. Use them to call on the government to use RBS to fund the transition to a low carbon economy, rather than allowing them to fund climate chaos.
Getting these action cards signed is crucial as it shows public support for our campaign. You can get them signed by knocking on doors in student accommodation, going round student cafes, or stopping people outside the library. How many can your group get signed?
Towards a Royal Bank of Sustainability: protecting taxpayers’ interests, cutting carbon risk
This new independent report by Nick Silver looks at the business case for shifting RBS investments away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. It recommends that UKFI, the Treasury company which holds taxpayers’ shares in bailed-out banks, take an ‘active ownership’ role in its management of RBS and at a minimum adopts ‘best practice’ standards for institutional shareholders.
This report was commissioned by People & Planet, World Development Movement, PLATFORM, BankTrack and Friends of the Earth Scotland. Download a copy and send it on to your MP
Cashing in on Coal: RBS, UK Banks and the Global Coal Industry
Platform’s latest report on finance and climate change exposes the sheer scale of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s involvement in financing coal projects across the world, and places it in comparative context with HSBC and Barclays. Whilst HSBC was involved in 3 loans to coal-related companies, Barclays was involved in 17 and RBS 27. The report uncovers RBS’ involvement in financing the energy giant E.ON’s project to build the first new coal-fired power station in the UK for 30 years - Kingsnorth in Kent
The policy paper is available as a hard copy in the campaign pack, or you can download it
The Oil and Gas Bank: The Royal Bank of Scotland investment in fossil fuel extraction and exploration
‘The Oil and Gas Bank’ looks into The Royal Bank of Scotland’s involvement in fossil fuel, particularly oil and gas, extraction and exploration projects and how RBS positions itself as a world leader in not only financing fossil fuel projects but also setting up project support such as risk analysis. The report calls on RBS to recognise the implications of its operations on climate change, calculate, publish and cap embedded emissions, replace its Oil and Gas Team with a Sustainable Energy Team and make no future loans to fossil fuel companies.
The policy paper is available as a hard copy in the campaign pack, or you can download it.
There is a (2007) list of projects financed by RBS available to download. Refer to this along with the report to get the most up-to-date picture of RBS fossil fuel financing.
Debunking RBS’ Greenwash
Some handy arguments to counter RBS-NatWest’s Greenwash. Especially useful at freshers fairs or branch actions when engaging with RBS-NatWest staff or account holders.
Fill out the form below to order materials, and see below the form for things you can download.
Please fill in this form to order a full campaign pack (contents listed above):
Downloadable Resources
Print out onto twelve sheets of A4, trim away the margins, and sellotape together to make a massive version of the Ditch Dirty Development hand print and writing logo. You can make this into a long thin version, or a shorter version (2 by 6 A4 pages).
This template is ready for you to adapt to press release your own actions. For more ideas on how to make the most of the media, see the Get in the News page.
SU Motions
Here are the SU motions passed by Warwick, Leeds and Edinburgh. Read over them for some ideas and adapt to suit your own Students Union.
For examples of how to frame your Students Union follow-up letters to RBS_NatWest, check out Warwick’s letter or Loughborough’s letters to the RBS CR team.
Web Links
Bank Track is a network of civil society organisations and individuals tracking the behaviour of the private financial sector across the world, and assessing its impact on the environment and human rights.
Check out this seriously creative Greenpeace action highlighting the plight of polar bears in the face of the impact of climate change on their natural habitat.
External Reports
Jim Hansen on Coal
Jim Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, submitted this written report on the impact of burning coal on the climate to the trial of the Kingsnorth Six. Some of the first section is very technical, but the middle and last sections are a highly informative and accessible examination of the impacts of climate change and coals contribution to it.
BP and Shell: Rising Risks in Tar Sands Investments
Platform and Greenpeace UK have come together to produce this brand new report on Canadian tar sands. The report analyses the risks, from financial to reputational, facing investors in tar sands in a world facing climate chaos. These risks are framed in terms of the investors’ own concerns, and thus hopes to provide both a persuasive argument and a demonstration of how tar sands are all-round crazy: both in terms of climate change and as a sensible, long-term project to meet the world’s energy needs. Click here to download it
If you need to order more of any specific resources (eg you need more action cards), please email Adam in the People & Planet office with details of which resources you would like, how many and if there is a deadline (eg an event) that you need them by.
You can also download the three reports in the campaign pack from the resources page, and get all the top action tips from the online action guide.
Already had the Ditch Dirty Development campaign pack last year? You can order an update pack complete with all this year’s new additions by emailing Adam. If you need more of the materials you received last year add this to the email.
