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:
"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...
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.
1. Real sharks are much more benign, and an important part of the ocean ecosystem, which they are unlikely to try to destroy.
Last year, the world's largest investment banks provided over $2.6tn of finance linked to the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife, detailed in the new Bankrolling Extinction report - with Barclays in the top 3 European banks concerned, alongside HSBC and BNP Paribas. Coupled with growing publi [...]
On a pandemic-muted Friday night, Extinction Rebellion protesters all over London (and others in Bristol) quietly visited every Barclays branch in the city, as well as many stand-alone Barclays cashpoints, to add stickers and slogans highlighting the bank's continued leading role in driving the plan [...]
A wave of protests on October 2nd against financial institutions that fund tar sands, starting in London then stretching across the U.S. and Canada, specifically targetted Barclays branches in London to highlight the bank's role in the devastating industry. Short-term profits from tar sands investme [...]
Barclays claim to believe they "should take a leading role in tackling climate change and help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy [...] the financing we do for our clients, in every sector, will support the goal of limiting global warming." And yet, last week Barclays hosted an online [...]
Sheffield, Inverness, Rochdale. Bath, Bristol, Exeter. Worthing, Hertford, Newbury. Cardiff, Manchester, the flagship Piccadilly Circus branch (seen above) and ... probably more elsewhere, all in the space of a few days. After the previous week of protests, this week saw many more Extinction Rebelli [...]
Last year, the world's largest investment banks provided over $2.6tn of finance linked to the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife, detailed in the new Bankrolling Extinction report - with Barclays in the top 3 European banks concerned, alongside HSBC and BNP Paribas. Coupled with growing publi [...]
On a pandemic-muted Friday night, Extinction Rebellion protesters all over London (and others in Bristol) quietly visited every Barclays branch in the city, as well as many stand-alone Barclays cashpoints, to add stickers and slogans highlighting the bank's continued leading role in driving the plan [...]
A wave of protests on October 2nd against financial institutions that fund tar sands, starting in London then stretching across the U.S. and Canada, specifically targetted Barclays branches in London to highlight the bank's role in the devastating industry. Short-term profits from tar sands investme [...]
Barclays claim to believe they "should take a leading role in tackling climate change and help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy [...] the financing we do for our clients, in every sector, will support the goal of limiting global warming." And yet, last week Barclays hosted an online [...]
Sheffield, Inverness, Rochdale. Bath, Bristol, Exeter. Worthing, Hertford, Newbury. Cardiff, Manchester, the flagship Piccadilly Circus branch (seen above) and ... probably more elsewhere, all in the space of a few days. After the previous week of protests, this week saw many more Extinction Rebelli [...]