Nine women from the Extinction Rebellion activist group and political party Burning Pink targeted the building in
The protesters said they wanted to highlight the financial sector’s role in the climate crisis. They claimed that HSBC’s current climate plan “allows it to finance coal power” despite the bank’s pledge to shrink its carbon footprint to net-zero by 2050, and called the bank “Europe’s second-largest financier of fossil fuels.”
It added that it is committed to “phase out the financing of coal-fired power and thermal coal mining by 2040 globally.”
Extinction Rebellion targeted Barclays’ headquarters earlier this month in a similar protest.
The group is known for taking what it calls “non-violent direct action,” which has included protesters gluing themselves to buildings and mass occupation of roads, to draw attention to its causes.
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