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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

UK students launch Barclays ‘career boycott’ over bank’s climate policies

A protest outside a Barclays Bank branch in St Albans, England, in 2021
A protest outside a Barclays Bank branch in St Albans, England, in 2021. Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Rex/Shutterstock

Hundreds of students from leading UK universities have launched a “career boycott” of Barclays over its climate policies, warning that the bank will miss out on top talent unless it stops financing fossil fuel companies.

More than 220 students from Barclays’ top recruitment universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, and University College London, have sent a letter to the high street lender, saying they will not work for Barclays and raising the alarm over its funding for oil and gas firms including Shell, TotalEnergies, Exxon and BP.

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