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Feds could face climate litigation over export-credit agency’s financing of fossil fuel projects, say advocates

‘It shouldn't take members of the public suing the federal government to get them to act,’ says one of the groups urging the government to reorient EDC's financing away from carbon-intensive projects and shifting it instead to the clean-tech sector.

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ
May 4, 2021

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Feds could face climate litigation over export-credit agency’s financing of fossil fuel projects, say advocates

‘It shouldn't take members of the public suing the federal government to get them to act,’ says one of the groups urging the government to reorient EDC's financing away from carbon-intensive projects and shifting it instead to the clean-tech sector.

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Feds could face climate litigation over export-credit agency’s financing of fossil fuel projects, say advocates

‘It shouldn't take members of the public suing the federal government to get them to act,’ says one of the groups urging the government to reorient EDC's financing away from carbon-intensive projects and shifting it instead to the clean-tech sector.

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