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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite Barclays’ recent attempts to appear to be tackling its fossil-fuel-finance problem – promising a ‘say on climate’ at its next AGM, and to update its targets and policies in advance of that – protests against the bank’s activities in this area show no signs of stopping. In February alone, ove [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite Barclays’ recent attempts to appear to be tackling its fossil-fuel-finance problem – promising a ‘say on climate’ at its next AGM, and to update its targets and policies in advance of that – protests against the bank’s activities in this area show no signs of stopping. In February alone, ove [...]