UK-based financial institution Barclays printed a brand new sustainability-focused presentation for traders, revealing that exposed that it earned roughly £500 million (USD$660 million) in revenues from sustainable and transition finance actions in 2024, and indicating that its sustainable and transition finance volumes have accelerated over the previous few months.
Within the H1 2025 sustainability presentation, Barclays additionally reiterated its ambition “to be a internet zero financial institution by 2050,” and supplied an replace in direction of its financed emissions discount targets for key emissions-intensive industries, indicating that the financial institution is forward of monitor in some sectors together with upstream vitality and metal, however has but to attain financed emissions reductions in others, together with automotive and aviation.
Barclays set a objective in late 2022 to facilitate $1 trillion of sustainable and transition financing between 2023 by the tip of 2030. Over the previous few years, the financial institution has made a collection of strikes to develop its sustainable finance capabilities and groups, together with the launch in 2024 of a brand new Vitality Transition Group inside its Company and Funding Financial institution, and a Sustainable Banking Group inside its Capital Markets enterprise.
In its replace, Barclays reported that it has reached cumulative volumes of $220.2 billion in sustainable and transition financing since 2023 in direction of its $1 trillion goal. The report additionally indicated that volumes have been stronger in latest months, recording $58 billion within the first half of 2025, in contrast with round $94 billion in all of 2024, and $68 billion in 2023.
Of the $220 billion achieved so far, roughly half of the volumes ($107 billion) have been underneath the class of “social,” which incorporates financing for supranational, nationwide and regional improvement establishments, adopted by $74.5 billion for environmental financing reminiscent of inexperienced bonds, inexperienced loans or inexperienced fairness financing, whereas $30.8 billion had been in sustainability-linked transactions, and $8 billion had been in lending, capital markets and different financing options supplied to shoppers for transition actions or applied sciences.
The report additionally included updates on Barclay’s progress in opposition to its sector-focused financed emissions targets. In upstream vitality, the financial institution’s most vital sector by absolute emissions, Barclays reported that as of 2024 it has achieved a forty five% emissions discount since 2020, already beating its 2030 objective of a 40% discount. Barclays additionally reported emissions reductions of 30% within the energy sector, 23% in metal, 9% in cement, 2% in business actual property, 1% in housing and 11% in agriculture. The report additionally discovered, nonetheless, that its aviation sector emissions depth stays flat, versus its goal to succeed in a 11% – 16% discount by 2030, and its automotive manufacturing emissions have elevated 1% from its 2022 baseline, in comparison with its goal to cut back emissions by 40% to 64% by 2030.
Within the financial institution’s personal operations, the report revealed that Barclays has achieved a 95% discount since 2018 in its Scope 1 and a pair of emissions, forward of its 90% discount goal.
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