AN INTERNATIONAL bank’s annual meeting was disrupted by a choral protest today when a “climate choir” sang its opposition to the company’s investment in fossil fuels.

Standard Chartered Bank’s AGM was underway at Aldersgate in London when the UK Climate Choir’s musical intervention sang accusations that the bank was funding destructive fossil fuel extraction in some of the world’s most bio-diverse environments.

The choir adapted the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” singing instead: “Fossil Fuels are Trouble.”

Climate Choir director Kate Honey said: “The new lyrics are our way of creatively challenging Standard Chartered’s continuing funding of fossil fuel projects. 

“[Its] investments do not benefit local communities. They are on the wrong side of history and it is time for them to give up on dirty fuels and invest in renewables.”

Standard Chartered says on its website: “We are committed to becoming net zero in our own operations by 2025 and where necessary, for the emissions we cannot abate, to purchasing high-integrity carbon credits.”