Climate activists push Barclays to ramp up green financing activities
15 December 2020 - 10:25
London — Few people understand the seeming futility of getting big banks to do the right thing better than Catherine Howarth.
For three years, Barclays, Europe’s biggest financier of corporate carbon emitters, ignored her entreaties. Then her non-profit ShareAction spent the best part of another year pushing a shareholder resolution — the first of its type in Europe — for the lender to phase out funding for fossil-fuel companies...
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