研究显示,英国银行在四年内提供了83亿美元的煤炭融资,其中巴克莱和汇丰银行领涨。
英国银行是欧洲最大的煤炭行业金融支持者,在过去四年为这一破坏气候的化石燃料提供了数十亿英镑的资金,报告称。
Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four years, 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 report.
研究发现,自2021年格拉斯哥举行的COP26会议以来,英国银行已提供83亿美元(62亿英镑)的煤炭融资,当时全球领导人承诺“逐步淘汰”煤炭使用。
The study found UK-based banks had provided $8.3bn (£6.2bn) in coal financing since Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021, when global leaders pledged to “phase down” coal use.
相比之下,德国银行提供了49亿美元,法国银行提供了34亿美元。
This compared with $4.9bn from German banks and $3.4bn from French banks over the same period.