Extinction Rebellion Protest Outside Market Harborough Bank
Written by HFM News on 30th January 2023
Extinction Rebellion activists have held a protest outside Barclays Bank in Market Harborough.
They gathered outside the High Street branch, placing stickers on the front windows suggesting people smash them if there is a climate emergency.
The message is a reference to the recent incident in London in which seven women, including the great-grand-daughter of famous Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, smashed the windows of the Barclays headquarters.
The seven were recently given suspended prison sentences.
The group says the action, which took place at a number of branches across the country on Friday night, was to increase public awareness of the bank’s role in the fossil fuel industry.
Pic: Extinction Rebellion
A Barclays spokesperson previously said: “We are determined to play our part in addressing the urgent and complex challenge of climate change. In March 2020 we were one of the first banks to set an ambition to become net zero by 2050, across all of our direct and indirect emissions, and we committed to align all of our financing activities with the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement.
“We have a three-part strategy to turn that ambition into action: achieving net zero operations, reducing our financed emissions, and financing the transition. In practice, this means we have set 2030 targets to reduce our financed emissions in four of the highest emitting sectors in our financing portfolio, with additional 2025 targets for the two highest-emitting sectors – energy and power.”
“We have also provided over £80bn of green financing and we are investing our own capital – £175m – into innovative, green start-ups.”
Pic: Extinction Rebellion
