Thu 15 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
The UK government is facing fresh calls to abandon its £750m plan to support a gas export terminal in Mozambique over fears the fossil fuel project is stoking the insurgency in the north of the country, which has left thousands of people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands.
In a letter to the government, seen by the Guardian, lawyers for the environmental group Friends of the Earth have warned that the huge natural gas project has worsened the conflict in Mozambiqueâs Cabo Delgado province, and called on the UK government to withdraw its financial support.
Mozambiqueâs poverty-stricken northern province has suffered increasingly violent attacks by Islamic State-affiliated insurgents since 2017, many targeting towns and communities near the $20bn (£15bn) gas project, which is backed by major international investors and companies.
Biography
Lawrence M. Weiss is a Non-Executive Director of the UK Export Finance (UKEF) Board. He is the Chair of the UKEF Audit Committee, and is a member of the Risk Committee as well as the Remuneration Committee. From 2017 to 2019 he was a member of the Department for International Trade (DIT) Audit & Risk Assurance Committee. Since 2014 Lawrence has also served on a variety of Boards in the private sector.
Lawrence was the Chief Executive Officer of Bank Leumi (UK) plc from 2008 to 2014. During that period he served as a member of the World Division Committee of the Association of Foreign Banks. From 1990-2008, he held a number of senior management positions in the oil division of Glencore, including responsibility for large project financing in developing countries and Head of Global Credit Risk Management.
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