Football sponsor wrecking the beautiful game: how Barclays is quietly ensuring pitches flood and players fry

A mock football match staged outside Barclays' flagship Piccadilly Circus branch has turned the floodlights on the bank's cynical exploitation of the beautiful game. Barclays proudly boasts of its status as Official Banking Partner of the Premier League and sponsorship of the FA Women's Super League [...]

September 2020
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New climate science report denounces Barclays' continued fossil fuel financing

A new report covering the latest science on the climate and ecological crisis, Emergency on Planet Earth, denounces Barclays for continuing to pour billions into fossil fuels, driving up carbon emissions that will lead to devastating global heating if unchecked. The report highlights the absurdity o [...]

September 2020

Pressure mounts on Barclays as protests multiply

In the space of a week, 5 different Barclays branches spread across the UK have been subject to Extinction Rebellion protest actions, raising public awareness of the bank's funding of fossil fuels, so that customers and investors will move their money elsewhere, bringing more pressure on Barclays to [...]

August 2020
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Barclays AGM lampooned in hint of things to come

Barclays' board attracted much criticism in advance of its 2020 AGM for strong-arming shareholders to support a largely toothless environmental resolution rather than the reasonable and effective one proposed by ShareAction. A new Extinction Rebellion spoof video offers a caustically satirical view [...]

August 2020

Football sponsor wrecking the beautiful game: how Barclays is quietly ensuring pitches flood and players fry

A mock football match staged outside Barclays' flagship Piccadilly Circus branch has turned the floodlights on the bank's cynical exploitation of the beautiful game. Barclays proudly boasts of its status as Official Banking Partner of the Premier League and sponsorship of the FA Women's Super League [...]

September 2020
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New climate science report denounces Barclays' continued fossil fuel financing

A new report covering the latest science on the climate and ecological crisis, Emergency on Planet Earth, denounces Barclays for continuing to pour billions into fossil fuels, driving up carbon emissions that will lead to devastating global heating if unchecked. The report highlights the absurdity o [...]

September 2020
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Pressure mounts on Barclays as protests multiply

In the space of a week, 5 different Barclays branches spread across the UK have been subject to Extinction Rebellion protest actions, raising public awareness of the bank's funding of fossil fuels, so that customers and investors will move their money elsewhere, bringing more pressure on Barclays to [...]

August 2020
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Barclays AGM lampooned in hint of things to come

Barclays' board attracted much criticism in advance of its 2020 AGM for strong-arming shareholders to support a largely toothless environmental resolution rather than the reasonable and effective one proposed by ShareAction. A new Extinction Rebellion spoof video offers a caustically satirical view [...]

August 2020
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