Reuters reported exclusively that European banks committed to backing action on climate change face allegations of double standards from indigenous groups in Ecuador after a report named them as major players in the trade in oil from the Amazon rainforest. Stand.earth and Amazon Watch said ING, Credit Suisse, Natixis, BNP Paribas, UBS and Rabobank were the largest backers in the shipment of about $10 billion of dollars of Ecuadorian crude to U.S. refineries over the last decade.
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Reuters exclusively reports European banks face indigenous calls to end Amazon oil trade
14 August 2020, 5:07 pm 1 minute
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