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> The European Investment Bank (EIB) lends more to clean energy than any other bank in the world. That’s something for Europe to be proud of. But CEE Bankwatch has just shown how, in a way that undermines the EU’s emission reduction targets, the EIB also continues to lend to coal-fired power stations. In fact they lent more this year than last.

Ebrahim Patel, the SA Minister for Economic Development said in an interview this week:

"... using retirement funds as a resource to drive growth and development did not mean the government would impose requirements on institutions. The proposal, supported by labour and retirement trustees in the past, had simply lacked "reliable instruments to invest in", he said.