The projections produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA) have for years been used to justify fossil fuel expansion plans. The IEA's misleadingly-named Sustainable Development Scenario, for example, claims compliance with the Paris Agreement – despite featuring very little reduction in oil a [...]
Barclays is clearly feeling the pressure from campaigners and many of its own shareholders to go much further and much faster in reducing its financing of environmentally-destructive activities, particularly fossil fuels – so much so, that at this year’s AGM, after the procedural formalities, initia [...]
Barclays shareholders may have been unsurprised to find that the 2021 Notice of AGM arrived with a 1,000-word statement from the board aiming to persuade them not to vote for the Market Forces resolution that would require the bank to begin taking real action on climate change, rather than more gree [...]
For the second year running, a group of over 100 Barclays shareholders has filed a resolution calling for the bank to take stronger action to tackle its financing of fossil fuels. Despite the board’s formal opposition to a similar resolution from a group led by ShareAction last year, nearly a quarte [...]
The projections produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA) have for years been used to justify fossil fuel expansion plans. The IEA's misleadingly-named Sustainable Development Scenario, for example, claims compliance with the Paris Agreement – despite featuring very little reduction in oil a [...]
Barclays is clearly feeling the pressure from campaigners and many of its own shareholders to go much further and much faster in reducing its financing of environmentally-destructive activities, particularly fossil fuels – so much so, that at this year’s AGM, after the procedural formalities, initia [...]
Barclays shareholders may have been unsurprised to find that the 2021 Notice of AGM arrived with a 1,000-word statement from the board aiming to persuade them not to vote for the Market Forces resolution that would require the bank to begin taking real action on climate change, rather than more gree [...]
For the second year running, a group of over 100 Barclays shareholders has filed a resolution calling for the bank to take stronger action to tackle its financing of fossil fuels. Despite the board’s formal opposition to a similar resolution from a group led by ShareAction last year, nearly a quarte [...]