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Citigroup pledges to improve on environment

January 23, 2004

New York City - Citigroup Inc., the world's largest financial services company, said Thursday it would now be environmentally friendly in how it finances projects, especially in the developing world.

The company said it had adopted new principles to help it assess project financing requests that might hurt the environment. The policy change follows years of criticism from the Rainforest Action Network, a San Francisco-based environmental group.

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