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...
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 –...
5 May 2021 | News, Press release
Reacting to the news that 14% of Barclays shareholders voted for the Market Forces shareholder resolution calling on the bank to phase out funding for fossil fuels (with a further 12% abstaining on Barclays’ management’s recommendation to vote against), Adam McGibbon,...
26 February 2021 | News, Press release
Barclays will face a second consecutive year of shareholder pressure on its position as Europe’s largest fossil fuel financier, after a shareholder resolution has been filed for the bank’s AGM on 5 May, calling for financing and exposure to coal, oil and gas to fall...
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