Campaigners start legal challenge to UK's $1bn grant to Mozambique gas project
by Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent from on (#57TYE)
Friends of the Earth seeks judicial review, saying aid deal contradicts climate commitments
Environmentalists at Friends of the Earth will mount a legal challenge against the government's decision to offer $1bn in financial support to a major fossil fuel project in Mozambique that they say is incompatible" with the Paris climate agreement.
The green group will go to the high court this week to seek a judicial review into the government's decision to use taxpayer money to worsen the climate emergency" by helping to finance a $20bn gas project on the Mozambican coast.
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