22 March 2022 | News, Press release
Market Forces van outside the central Glasgow branch of Barclays during COP26, November 2021. Photo credit: Market Forces Barclays climate policy – released today with its Notice of AGM – is self-defeating as it allows expansion of the fossil fuel...
2 March 2022 | News, Press release
Market Forces stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, who have been subjected to a brutal and illegal invasion perpetrated by the Russian military. We are also appalled that governments and financial institutions are invested in Russian companies –...
17 February 2022 | News, Press release
A protester outside a Standard Chartered office in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2021. Photo credit: 350.org New briefing shows Standard Chartered’s fossil fuel policy applies to only around half of bank’s 2020 fossil fuel financingStandard Chartered still willing to...
28 October 2021 | News, Press release
Policy fails to rule out oil and gas expansion, as required by the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 scenario,Major coal mining clients to continue to enjoy Standard Chartered’s financing,Market Forces-coordinated shareholder resolution stands, and will go to StanChart AGM...
7 October 2021 | News, Press release
Shareholders file climate resolution as StanChart CEO co-chairs Sustainability Council of G20 business summit (B20)Resolution calls on bank to match ‘net zero by 2050’ rhetoric with action and end the bank’s misaligned financing of fossil fuelsInternational...
19 August 2021 | News, Press release, Uncategorized
HSBC and Barclays neck-and-neck for funding fossil fuels this year so far – funding US$4.5 billion and $4.4 billion respectively in fossils – despite climate pledges. The top UK fossil-funding banks – Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered –...
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