SGS Statement

Verification of 2008

Carbon emissions

Barclays PLC has assessed its 2008 CO2 emissions relating to global operations. Emissions arise due to energy consumed by Barclays operated offices and buildings and due to defined business travel. SGS United Kingdom Ltd independently verified 63% of emissions to a reasonable level of assurance and the remaining 37% to a limited level of assurance. For this verification, SGS has offered a reasonable level of assurance where 100% complete, or near 100% complete data sets have been presented and verified by selected sampling and testing. SGS has offered a limited level of assurance on that portion of the data set where substantially less than 100% complete and verifiable information has been presented, and a relatively high proportion of the resulting emissions have been obtained using calculated extrapolation techniques.