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Celebrities call on Wimbledon to drop Barclays sponsorship

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Richard Curtis, Emma Thompson and others say bank is ‘financing and profiting from climate chaos’ Richard Curtis, Emma Thompson and Deborah Meaden are among celebrities who have called on Wimbledon to end its new partnership with Barclays over the bank’s multibillion-pound support for fossil fuel projects.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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The 2020 Wimbledon event illustrates this point. After announcing the event would have to be canceled, reports emerged that the organizers of Wimbledon had paid approximately $1.9M In exchange, Wimbledon is expected to receive a hefty payout of approximately $142M for the cancellation of the 2020 event. Source: Investopedia.

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