Nearly 30 people from several social organizations, including Friends of the Earth Europe, carried out an action last Thursday outside the World Bank’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to demand the bank to stop funding fossil fuel-based energy projects. The activists especially rejected the 3.75 billion-dollar loan that the bank granted to a South African state-owned corporation Eskom, for the construction of one of the world’s largest coal plants.
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