{"id":572376,"date":"2023-01-25T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=572376"},"modified":"2023-02-04T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:04:19","slug":"celebrities-call-on-uk-banks-to-stop-financing-new-oil-gas-and-coalfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/celebrities-call-on-uk-banks-to-stop-financing-new-oil-gas-and-coalfields","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities call on UK banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coalfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry Photograph: Ken McKay\/ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock Famous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK&#8217;s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion. Make My Money Matter , a campaign set up by Richard Curtis , the screenwriter, director and Comic Relief co-founder, has written to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds to urge these banks to &#8220;stop financing fossil fuel expansion&#8221;. Curtis said they wanted to raise public awareness of &#8220;the dangerous relationship between UK banks and the fossil fuel industry&#8221;. Members of the public are being invited to join forces with celebrities, politicians, campaigners and business leaders by signing the open letter . The call comes days after research indicated that banks and finance institutions that had signed up to net-zero pledges were still investing heavily in fossil fuels. Make My Money Matter pointed to a report in February 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis&#8217;s Make My Money Matter campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-economy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}