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    UK Urged to Press World Bank to Rethink Coal Investments

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon // 18 January 2011

    U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell should use his position on the World Bank’s board to urge the Washington-based lender to abandon investments in carbon-intensive energy projects, U.K.-based charity Christian Aid says.

    World Bank financing for coal plants, which emit massive amounts of carbon, has increased 40-fold in the last five years, reaching a record USD4.4 billion last year, the nonprofit notes.

    “Mr Mitchell must use his position to urge a fundamental rethink of World Bank energy policies. Unless it changes, it is completely unsuited to act as a conduit for climate change funds,” Christian Aid senior climate policy adviser Alison Doig said on Jan. 17.

    The U.K. has a 3.75 percent voting share at the bank.

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