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, accordin...
Source: [Guardian Environment](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/30/uk-banks-are-europe-biggest-providers-coal-financing-report-finds)