Despite its pride in being a founder member of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), including a commitment to “CO2 emissions reaching net-zero at the latest by 2050, consistent with a maximum temperature rise of 1.5°C”, new finance analysis shows that Barclays is one of the foremost banks in a “dir [...]
Increasing recent attention from the BBC and others about the environmental impact of Drax power station makes uncomfortable reading for those financing it – particularly Barclays, whose long association with Drax Group plc includes the £300m facility shown in the group’s most recent Annual Report. [...]
With the departure under a cloud of the bank’s CEO, Barclays may have hoped its involvement in COP26 would have a favourable effect on its reputation – but events around the climate conference served to throw its environmentally-disastrous activities into sharp relief. While political leaders gat [...]
In more than 20 towns and cities around the UK, the contents of prominent billboards have been replaced by striking, original posters calling out Barclays’ financing of environmental destruction. Over 200 locations feature designs from 11 different artists in a campaign co-ordinated by Brandalism to [...]
Despite its pride in being a founder member of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), including a commitment to “CO2 emissions reaching net-zero at the latest by 2050, consistent with a maximum temperature rise of 1.5°C”, new finance analysis shows that Barclays is one of the foremost banks in a “dir [...]
Increasing recent attention from the BBC and others about the environmental impact of Drax power station makes uncomfortable reading for those financing it – particularly Barclays, whose long association with Drax Group plc includes the £300m facility shown in the group’s most recent Annual Report. [...]
With the departure under a cloud of the bank’s CEO, Barclays may have hoped its involvement in COP26 would have a favourable effect on its reputation – but events around the climate conference served to throw its environmentally-disastrous activities into sharp relief. While political leaders gat [...]
In more than 20 towns and cities around the UK, the contents of prominent billboards have been replaced by striking, original posters calling out Barclays’ financing of environmental destruction. Over 200 locations feature designs from 11 different artists in a campaign co-ordinated by Brandalism to [...]