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UK taking ‘green’ advice from energy giant suing Dutch for phasing out coal

New British foreign investment council also includes banks with billions invested in fossil fuels, a weapons manufacturer and a Tory donor

By Claire Provost, Peter Geoghegan and Lou Ferreira
UK taking ‘green’ advice from energy giant suing Dutch for phasing out coal
RWE is suing the Netherlands for €1.4bn after the country decided to phase out coal by 2030 | Arterra Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
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Boris Johnson’s new investment council includes a subsidiary of a German energy giant that is suing the Netherlands for €1.4bn for phasing out coal.

The Investment Council, which launched last month to drum up foreign investment into the UK, has talked up the importance of ‘sustainable’ investment and ‘green industries’ ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit.

But the council’s advisers include RWE Renewables, whose parent company took the Netherlands to a World Bank arbitration tribunal after the Dutch government decided to phase out coal.

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