Call to EU for clean coal cash

A CONSORTIUM including Royal Dutch Shell, Npower and Climate Change Capital has written to European Union leaders to urge them to commit to a €1.25 billion (£1.1 billion) funding package for clean-coal projects across Europe.

The group sent the letter amid worries that the EU was wavering in its support for so-called carbon-capture and storage (CCS) projects after €100m was cut from the original pledge. Two CCS projects could be built in Britain.