Article 4ZRFW Bank of England under pressure over board member's oil links

Bank of England under pressure over board member's oil links

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Phillip Inman and Fiona Harvey
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4ZRFW)

Campaigners seek to embarrass Bank over role of Tullow Oil executive Dorothy Thompson

Environmental groups have called into question the Bank of England's commitment to tackling the climate emergency while it retains one of Britain's most senior oil company executives on its governing board.

Greenpeace joined with Friends of the Earth and the campaign group Oil Change International (OCI) to condemn the role played on the Bank's board of directors by Dorothy Thompson, the executive chair of Britain's largest independent oil company, Tullow Oil.

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