Barclays delivers progress against its climate strategy in 2025

Barclays publishes its 2025 Annual Report, setting out the progress made in the last year against its climate strategy. Within this disclosure, Barclays reiterated its ambition to be a net zero bank by 2050 and reported consistent delivery against its climate strategy, having had a record year for Sustainable and Transition Finance in 2025, and met and exceeded its 2025 financed emission reduction targets. Daniel Hanna, Barclays’ Group Head of Sustainable and Transition Finance, said: “In 2025, we published our Transition Update and reiterated our ambition to be a net…

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Barclays unveils approach to navigating nature-related financial risk

Barclays publishes leading approach to assessing nature-related financial risks of large financial portfolios and outlines pragmatic steps to drive progress. Understanding of nature-related risk and how to include it in economic and financial modelling is nascent. To make progress, Barclays is seeking to drive forward an industry-wide conversation and, in a new publication, Navigating Nature Risk: Applying the TNFD’s LEAP framework, details how it has leveraged the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure’s Locate, Evaluate, Assess and Prepare Framework (LEAP). Focusing on a sample of mining and European power companies, Barclays…

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Barclays unveils approach to navigating nature-related financial risk

Barclays publishes leading approach to assessing nature-related financial risks of large financial portfolios and outlines pragmatic steps to drive progress. Understanding of nature-related risk and how to include it in economic and financial modelling is nascent. To make progress, Barclays is seeking to drive forward an industry-wide conversation and, in a new publication, Navigating Nature Risk: Applying the TNFD’s LEAP framework, details how it has leveraged the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure’s Locate, Evaluate, Assess and Prepare Framework (LEAP). Focusing on a sample of mining and European power companies, Barclays…

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Unreasonable Impact announces new roster of ventures for the 2025 UK & Europe programme

Unreasonable Impact, a strategic partnership between Unreasonable Group and Barclays, has introduced the newest cohort of ventures selected for its UK & Europe programme. This year’s ventures are working across biodiversity monitoring, sustainable materials, and energy efficiency. Among them are: Material Evolution – Material Evolution develops low-carbon cement alternatives using AI-driven alkali fusion technology, reducing emissions by 85% compared to conventional methods. Liz Gilligan, co-founder and CEO, combines her expertise in sustainable concrete and extensive practical experience to lead the company’s mission to create industry-standard eco-friendly building materials. Onego Bio – Onego…

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Barclays and Channel 5 partner to champion better money management across the UK with Nick Knowles

Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, consumer bank Barclays UK and Channel 5, have announced a brand new and exclusive TV and social media partnership to encourage conversations about money management, featuring broadcaster’s much-loved presenter Nick Knowles. The light-hearted and educational six-part series launches tonight on Channel 5 during Bank Scams: Don’t Get Caught Out at 19:00 and during New: Fresh vs. Frozen: Which is Better at 20:00.  It aims to educate viewers on how to deal with financial challenges using Barclays’ products and services to help make money…

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