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Big banks' big footprint: UK financial institutions responsible for double UK's annual carbon emissions, report warns

Jessica Rawnsley

25 May 2021 • 4 min read

Big banks' big footprint: UK financial institutions responsible for double UK's annual carbon emissions, report warns

Green campaigners warn City of London would be ninth biggest emitter of CO2 in world if it was a country in fresh analysis of financial sector's environmental impact

UK banks and investors are responsible for almost double the UK's net annual carbon emissions, a damning new report by WWF and Greenpeace has found. The analysis argues that based on the carbon footprint...

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