HSBC's campaign to increase environmental awareness among university students has met with a positive response, the bank said.

It has offered to plant a tree for every student who opens a new account and has their stipend directly credited to it.

These students can also win an all-expenses paid Earthwatch environmental and scientific expedition to either Spain or the UK.

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