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Barclays ends food speculation that made up to £278 million in 2012

Campaign success: Barclays pulls out of food speculation

Barclays stops speculating on food – campaigners demand regulation

Goldman Sachs made up to £250 million betting on food prices in 2012

A new norm of volatility?

Barclays move on food speculation?

Barclays considers pulling out of food speculation – campaigners call for regulation

Barclays' speculation on food prices exposed in spoof film

Meeting the minister

European parliament vote leaves food speculation regulation ‘too weak’

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2011

The UK government puts £10 million of its climate finance towards the UN Adaptation Fund, and agrees to give the majority of its funds to the World Bank's climate adaptation fund as grants rather than loans.

2010

The Royal Bank of Scotland commits to developing external environmental, social and ethical risk statements and internally implementing similar policies for oil and gas, mining and metals and forestry and defence.

2010

The EU allocates €40 million to support twinning arrangements between public water utilities in poor regions of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and wealthier European countries.

2009

Following joint campaigning by WDM and other groups and organisations, EON shelves plans for a new coal power station at Kingsnorth in Kent.