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Neil Pooran & John-Paul Clark

Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest outside Barclays in Glasgow

Climate activists have staged a protest outside Barclays office in Glasgow.

The Extinction Rebellion protesters called for an end to finance for the fossil fuel industry and poured oil on a chained globe during the event in Argyle Street.

The Stop Rosebank group, which is campaigning against a new oil field in the North Sea, also backed the protest.

In November last year, two men were arrested after windows were smashed during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Barclays offices in Clyde Place Quay.

The protesters gathered in Glasgow today. (Getty)

Rachael Alexander, from Extinction Rebellion Scotland, said: "Barclays have proven that their corporate and public strategies to target climate change are little more than hot air.

"They do not care about the planet, and they do not care about us.

"As long as fossil fuels are still profitable, they will continue to invest despite knowing that rising sea levels will leave parts of Glasgow underwater in a matter of decades.

"No amount of empty promises and meaningless jargon will absolve them of their responsibility for such environmental destruction."

Sally Clark, from the campaign group Biofuelwatch, said: "It is shocking that Barclays is funding forest destruction, biodiversity loss, environmental injustice and climate-wrecking emissions through its investments in Drax which is the UK's single largest carbon emitter and the world's biggest tree burner.

Extinction Rebellion Scotland protest outside the Barclays Bank branch in Argyle Street in Glasgow. (Getty)

"If we are to keep global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees, we need to protect and restore the world's forests, not allow big polluters like Drax and funders like Barclays to send our futures up in smoke."

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