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"Members of the Rainforest Action Network, top, listened Tuesday at a Senate committee hearing as oil executives, middle, waited to testify before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources"

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Hundreds of protesters across the country have demanded that the taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland stop using public money to extract tar sands.

Anti-poverty, human rights and environmental protesters hit out on the day of RBS's annual general meeting to highlight the negative impact of tar sands extraction on climate change and indigenous communities.

Simultaneous protests were organised by the World Development Movement and People and Planet in over 15 locations including London, Cardiff, Sheffield, Cambridge and Edinburgh.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 18, 2010 (Tierramérica) - Countries have largely failed to endorse the Copenhagen Climate accord by the Jan. 31 deadline. On Thursday, the key official in the United Nations climate treaty process announced his resignation.

There is no effective global climate treaty and the well-respected Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, who worked tirelessly for four years to facilitate an agreement, has had enough.