Isabella Salkeld
@salkeldisabella
Senior Campaigns Officer at @ShareAction | MSc Environmental Policy | Sustainable finance💰 Just transition 🌍 Degrowth 📉 She/Her | views my own
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02-09-2019 13:53:48
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A huge win!🥳 Robust policies are still needed on corporate financing to oil and gas companies, but this is a step in the right direction - Barclays Bank Societe Generale Group Crédit Agricole Deutsche Bank & others should now follow suit... 👀
Today Kelly Shields & I are the #BNPPAGM The Chair of BNP Paribas Group remains a member of TotalEnergies’s board - despite concerns raised by many - & has now suggested a change in the bank’s Article of Associations that would allow him to stay on for longer 🤯
🚨 NEW: ShareAction Banks' 2023 AGM round up! Our 3 main takeaways from this season: 💸 investor engagement with banks works 🤝 the NGO movement is growing stronger 📣 affected communities are having their say urgewald Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development BankTrack 🦋 @banktrack.bsky.social shareaction.org/news/banks-fos…
It’s an honour to work with the legend of British politics that is Caroline Lucas - the House of Commons will be poorer without her. But it’s more imperative than ever that more The Green Party MPs are elected to follow in her footsteps - our planet depends on it.
WATCH: what happened outside British LGBT Awards We joined Fossil Free Pride Queer House Party & Tipping Point UK to call out the awards’ climate wrecking sponsors Drag artists, frontline communities & queer activists came together to show that queer liberation cannot be coopted
Big day at European Parliament tomorrow: ECON vote on #insurance law #SolvencyII Lots of public pressure from ShareAction urgewald Finance Watch @wwf & many others pushing for: ⚫Mandatory transition plans ⚫Stewardship policy ⚫Highe capital charges for (new) fossil fuel assets
Barclays has classified a $10bn revolving credit facility that it created for Shell as “social and environmental financing” despite the company continuing to invest in new oil and gas. My latest exclusive for the The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…
NEW REPORT: Big banks including Barclays Bank, Chase, Bank of America & Citi are propping up deadly coal plants across the US. 🏦🏭⚠️ These banks won’t directly fund coal projects, but giant loopholes allow them to keep funding the companies operating them. sierraclub.org/press-releases…
After behind-the-scenes talks with us & investors Barclays Bank has published a new energy policy. It will: 🔎set basic climate tests for oil & gas clients ❌end finance for new oil & gas projects This is a step forward, but the climate crisis demands more. shareaction.org/news/barclays-…
We've arrived in Glasgow! We're ready to challenge the board of directors at Barclays Bank, asking them to stop financing fracking. Follow us and our campaigner Kelly Shields for live updates from inside the AGM👇🧵
There is a momentous shift happening right now💥 Public opinion is quickly turning on Barclays Bank because of its funding of Israeli arms & fossil fuels, as artists boycott the bank Download Festival Barclays could be a leader & reverse course if it wanted to bbc.com/news/articles/…