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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Rupert Jones

Celebrities call on UK banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coalfields

Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry in December 2022. Make My Money Matter has written to HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds to urge them to ‘stop financing fossil fuel expansion’. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Famous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion.

Make My Money Matter, a campaign set up by Richard Curtis, the screenwriter, director and Comic Relief co-founder, has written to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds to urge these banks to “stop financing fossil fuel expansion”.

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