ESG & Investing

Why Barclays Is One of the Main Targets of UK Climate Activists

For one thing, it’s provided more bonds and loans to fossil fuel companies than any European rival over the past three years.

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“Hey Barclays, the elves are ****** with you.”

Such yuletide disdain is old hat for the British bank, long a target of London climate protesters who say it deserves coal-filled stockings given its fossil fuel-financing ways.