Barclays pledges to stop directly financing new oil and gas projects

Stuart Stone
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Bank’s revised Climate Change Statement promises to halt financing for energy firms' upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure

Barclays has today published a revised Climate Change Statement, confirming it will no longer provide finance to energy clients for new upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure....

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