Targeting Barclays, Climate Activists Fight Their Way to Draw

摘要

Few people understand the seeming futility of getting big banks to do the right thing better thanCatherine Howarth.For three years, Barclays Plc, Europe’s biggest financier of corporate carbon emitters, ignored herentreaties. Then her non-profit, ShareAction, spent the best part of another year pushing ashareholder resolution -- the first of its kind in Europe -- for the lender to phase out funding forfossil-fuel companies.