Banking embarrassment for National Trust, Bloom & Wild

The unusually large vote against Barclays’ management-backed advisory resolution approving its climate plans (albeit still passing) underlined that far from being the concern only of fringe groups, the bank’s environmental policies still fall far short of what many of its own shareholders are demand [...]

September 2022
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Jackdaw go-ahead sparks Barclays backlash

The UK government’s decision to approve Shell’s development of the controversial Jackdaw gas field has thrown the company’s financers into the spotlight. The IEA has made clear that no such developments of new fossil fuel resources should be undertaken, to avoid critical levels of global warming. Ba [...]

July 2022

AGM chaos follows climate frustration

Soaring drought and desertification leading to giddying drops in food production; roads filled with overturned cars after flooding; record-breaking storms causing power cuts, huge structural damage, transport paralysis, injury and death are just some of the recent weather events increasingly attribu [...]

May 2022
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New climate plans fail to help Barclays

After announcing a £450m hit from breaking US banking rules, followed by a £900m shareholder exit pushing down its share price, all while still recovering from the fallout of the former CEO’s departure, Barclays may have hoped its revised climate plan would garner some favourable press – but the dis [...]

March 2022

Banking embarrassment for National Trust, Bloom & Wild

The unusually large vote against Barclays’ management-backed advisory resolution approving its climate plans (albeit still passing) underlined that far from being the concern only of fringe groups, the bank’s environmental policies still fall far short of what many of its own shareholders are demand [...]

September 2022
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Jackdaw go-ahead sparks Barclays backlash

The UK government’s decision to approve Shell’s development of the controversial Jackdaw gas field has thrown the company’s financers into the spotlight. The IEA has made clear that no such developments of new fossil fuel resources should be undertaken, to avoid critical levels of global warming. Ba [...]

July 2022
...

AGM chaos follows climate frustration

Soaring drought and desertification leading to giddying drops in food production; roads filled with overturned cars after flooding; record-breaking storms causing power cuts, huge structural damage, transport paralysis, injury and death are just some of the recent weather events increasingly attribu [...]

May 2022
...

New climate plans fail to help Barclays

After announcing a £450m hit from breaking US banking rules, followed by a £900m shareholder exit pushing down its share price, all while still recovering from the fallout of the former CEO’s departure, Barclays may have hoped its revised climate plan would garner some favourable press – but the dis [...]

March 2022
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