TheGuardian

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Undeterred after being charged over separate demonstration, Thunberg joined fossil fuel activists outside JP Morgan in Canary Wharf UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates Greta Thunberg has taken part in climate protests in London for the second time this week, protesting outside the JP Morgan headquarters in Canary Wharf.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 31, 2023

French banks have financed $154bn to firms running biggest fossil fuel projects since 2015 climate pact France is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO 2 each, the Guardian can reveal.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 21, 2024

Campaigners call on banks to cease funding Ithaca, which is playing a key role in Rosebank oilfield plan Two major UK high street banks have been accused of continuing to finance fossil fuel expansion in the North Sea despite signing a pledge to align their activities with the net zero climate goal.

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 16, 2023

UK lender is a major European funder of oil and gas projects and university has said it does not want to back fossil fuel expansion Cambridge University could cut ties with Barclays after more than 200 years over the bank’s refusal to stop financing new oil and gas projects, according to the Financial Times.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Exclusive: Projects that risk 1.5C heating target operated by companies receiving financing from European, Chinese and US banks Banks pumped more than $150bn last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 24, 2023

Make My Money Matter , a campaign set up by Richard Curtis , the screenwriter, director and Comic Relief co-founder, has written to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds to urge these banks to “stop financing fossil fuel expansion”. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bank also plans to phase out similar lending for existing customers under its first climate transition plan NatWest has announced it will stop offering loans to new customers hoping to fund oil and gas exploration, extraction or production projects, as part of a wider climate transition plan due to be unveiled next week.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Communications role follows year in which campaigners targeted bank over environmental stance Barclays has kicked off a search for a director to champion its climate efforts, after a bruising year in which the UK bank was targeted by campaigners over its environmental record.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 11, 2023

Report from climate activist groups says City is unprepared for potential collapse in value of fossil fuel assets The UK could suffer 500,000 job losses and be forced to spend £674bn of taxpayer cash to rescue its banks, unless the City prepares for the value of fossil fuels to collapse as a result of climate crisis regulations , research shows.

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TheGuardian

JUNE 15, 2022

‘Net zero’ global alliance of financial institutions, begun at Cop26, can still invest in coal and other fossil fuels Banks that have signed up to a global climate pledge, led by Mark Carney , a former governor of the Bank of England, can still invest unlimited amounts in coal mining and coal power, despite promises to tighten the rules on their lending. (..)

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

ANZ stands out as ‘laggard’ while Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have restrictions on facilitating bonds for fossil fuel clients Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast There is a growing gulf between the climate policies of Australia’s big banks, with some pledging to severely limit future financing for fossil fuel (..)

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TheGuardian

MARCH 16, 2023

It took decades to force banks to abandon racist redlining. We don’t have decades to avert catastrophic climate crisis The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will bring many forms of fallout. One of the most obvious consequences is that the biggest banks – Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America – will probably get even bigger.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ukrainian campaigners call for immediate end to investments, to cut funds to war and help avoid climate breakdown US and UK financial institutions have been among the leading investors in Russian “carbon bomb” fossil fuel projects, according to a new database of holdings from recent years.

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TheGuardian

MAY 31, 2023

The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have collectively pumped $32.85bn into fossil fuel projects – almost entirely linked to oil and gas production or power generation – over the same period, the report says.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 24, 2021

Activists say the bank, which handles government tax accounts, gives billions in funding to fossil fuel industries Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked Whitehall in a protest against HMRC’s links to Barclays Bank, which handles the government’s tax collection bank accounts.

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Financing in lead up to Cop26 largest of all major UK banks, finds campaigners Barclays has financed more in fossil fuel projects than any of the UK’s largest banks in the months leading up to the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow, according to a report by climate finance campaigners. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

MAY 6, 2023

Higher rates slow the renewable energy transition and shield oil and gas producers from competition by low-carbon producers In late 2021, consumer price inflation surged in many countries. Prices shot up again following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Integrated oil companies — defined as international and state-owned companies with operations across the oil and gas value chain — are especially incentivized to invest in technologies that could enable the eventual replacement of hydrocarbon-generated energy, lowering the cost of meeting remaining fossil fuel demand.

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Andrew Bragg and Tim Wilson say inquiry is unnecessary because it’s a legitimate ‘matter for those institutions’ The “modern” Liberals Andrew Bragg and Tim Wilson have brushed off calls from within the government for a fresh inquiry into banks’ decisions to stop lending to coal companies.

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TheGuardian

MAY 3, 2023

Dozens of activists from groups including Fossil Free London and Extinction Rebellion UK began their action less than five minutes into the meeting where its chair, Nigel Higgins, was addressing shareholders at the QEII Centre in Westminster, central London.

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TheGuardian

MAY 3, 2021

Lenders including Barclays and HSBC provided services and loans worth £21.9bn in 2019 British banks’ financial support for companies involved in the coal industry has risen since the 2015 Paris agreement, despite their pledges to wind down financing for a sector seen as a significant obstacle to tackling global heating.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Speaking at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative roundtable on Tuesday, the former central bank boss said lenders should – at the very least – be transparent over whether or not pay is being tied to climate targets.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 10, 2021

Fifteen pension and investment funds, led by the campaign group ShareAction, have agreed to withdraw their own environment resolution ahead of HSBC’s annual general meeting on 28 May. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

MAY 4, 2022

Bank plan meets opposition after environmental protesters disrupt AGM in Manchester Shareholders dealt an embarrassing blow to Barclays’ climate credentials on Wednesday, with almost 20% rejecting the bank’s climate strategy as activists disrupted its annual meeting to protest against the bank’s financing of fossil fuels.

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TheGuardian

APRIL 18, 2023

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie attend ‘couples therapy’ in Richard Curtis film for Make My Money Matter The Game of Thrones stars and real-life couple Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are co-starring in a Richard Curtis short film highlighting the “toxic relationship” between UK high street banks and the fossil fuel industry.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 10, 2021

Europe’s second-largest financier of fossil fuels faces a vote to ramp up its climate commitments HSBC could be forced to slash its exposure to fossil fuels – starting with coal – from next year, after an influential group of investors filed a shareholder vote urging the bank to ramp up its climate commitments.

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TheGuardian

MAY 5, 2023

Environmentalists from the Philippines urge investors to avoid LNG projects which they say threaten the Verde Island Passage Campaigners from the Philippines have urged British banks not to fund the expansion of fossil fuel use in their country.

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TheGuardian

APRIL 25, 2023

Offices of Citibank in New York and Wells Fargo in San Francisco targeted by activists urging shareholders to act As they exited their office in Tribeca on Monday afternoon, Citibank employees were confronted with a boisterous crowd chanting and dancing along to the music of a mariachi band.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 9, 2021

Church of England, Lloyds and the National Grid among those pledging to meet 2050 target Major pension funds that own assets worth £870bn, including those of the Church of England, Lloyds Banking Group and the National Grid, have committed to cutting the carbon emissions of their portfolios to net zero by 2050 or earlier, in another sign of big investors’ (..)

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But the banks stopped short of pledging an end to fossil fuel finance, and did not set out firm targets for how much funding they would devote to a green recovery in a declaration signed on Thursday by 450 development banks worldwide.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 19, 2021

Campaigners target Standard Chartered, urging bank to stop funding coal in emerging markets Climate protesters from as many as 60 countries have gathered in person and online for Fridays for Future, a movement created by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sixty medical professionals including nurses hold protest to highlight fossil fuel investments Sixty doctors, nurses and other health professionals have staged a die-in protest outside JP Morgan’s Canary Wharf headquarters in London to highlight the bank’s investment in fossil fuels.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 27, 2021

Activists tour financial institutions to highlight firms they believe to be culpable in climate crisis Extinction Rebellion protesters poured red paint over the entrances of City institutions as they marched through London’s financial district in a protest against the ‘“blood money” on which they say the UK economy is built.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Action against one of Europe’s largest financial institutions is the first climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank French campaigners are suing one of Europe’s largest financial institutions for financing fossil fuels in the first climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

While some lenders such as NatWest are demonstrating leadership on specific issues – such as net zero targets and policies restricting financing for new fossil fuel – research by investment campaign group ShareAction found none of the banks it reviewed were taking action across all key areas. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 23, 2021

Coal, oil and gas firms have received $3.8tn in finance since the Paris climate deal in 2015 The world’s biggest 60 banks have provided $3.8tn of financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal in 2015, according to a report by a coalition of NGOs.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

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