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East Africa: Insurance Giant Marsh Signs on for Environmentally Disastrous Pipeline Project #AfricaClimateCrisis
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 19 May 2022
Four months after starting work at Marsh McLennan, a young woman stood up in a ballroom where hundreds of employees had gathered for an away day and asked what the company was… Read more »
Insurance Giant Signs on for EACOP Pipeline #AfricaClimateCrisis
Marsh, the conglomerate's insurance broker bid for and won the contract to find insurers for the east African crude oil pipeline, a huge and environmentally ruinous project expected to generate more than 33 million tons of carbon emissions each year.
As well as threatening to derail vital targets set out in the Paris Agreement, the pipeline's construction will likely uproot thousands of villagers in Uganda and Tanzania, writes Josephine Moulds for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
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