16 days ago · Glasgow
UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds

What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a environment story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Glasgow. The first report grouped here was at 30 Sept 2026, 11:58 UTC. The headline in use is “UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Study says UK-based banks provided $8. 3bn in coal financing in four year, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise UK banks are Europe’s biggest financial backers of the global coal industry, providing billions of pounds in funding for the climate-wrecking fossil fuel in the past four years, according to a…
Story timeline
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
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- The Guardian