The 2015 Paris Agreement sets out what humankind needs to do to keep global heating below 1.5°C. Even if we burn only the fossil fuel reserves we already have, the planet will heat up by much more than this, leading to a catastrophic future - and "Every fraction of additional warming beyond 1.5°C will bring worse impacts" (UN Environment Programme)
We need to keep fossil fuels in the ground, yet Barclays continues to finance businesses expanding fossil fuel extraction, exploiting new reserves or destroying the ecosystems required to help avoid climate disaster.
Not madness; greed. Such fatally short-sighted, uncontrolled pursuit of profit is like the predatory feeding frenzy of a Barclays alter ego we call: Sharklays1. Read the facts about Barclays here.
1. Real sharks are much more benign, and an important part of the ocean ecosystem, which they are unlikely to try to destroy. Find out why they need protecting here.
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With the departure under a cloud of the bank’s CEO, Barclays may have hoped its involvement in COP26 would have a favourable effect on its reputation – but events around the climate conference served to throw its environmentally-disastrous activities into sharp relief. While political leaders gat [...]
In more than 20 towns and cities around the UK, the contents of prominent billboards have been replaced by striking, original posters calling out Barclays’ financing of environmental destruction. Over 200 locations feature designs from 11 different artists in a campaign co-ordinated by Brandalism to [...]
Despite renewed and increasingly-urgent warnings about accelerating climate change bringing devastation sooner than we think, and with disregard for the insistence of the International Energy Authoritiy (IEA) that to attempt to limit warming to 1.5°C Paris Agreement objective there must be no new oi [...]
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