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What future
is your Super funding?

Superannuation allows Australians the opportunity to retire with a greater level of comfort and security.

But what if the super that we retire with has been funding the environmental destruction and runaway climate change we need to avoid?

What if, by being invested in fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, our super funds deliver us a polluted world to retire into?

Is your Super funding climate change? Watch to find out

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Is your super fund is investing your retirement savings in polluting fossil fuels?

REPORT

December 2025

The Fossil Fuel Expansion Index

Market Forces has identified a global list of 200 companies with the biggest coal, oil and gas expansion plans. We call this group of companies the Fossil Fuel Expansion Index. Find out how Australian superannuation funds are propping up these companies, the world’s most unforgivable climate polluters.

ANALYSIS

December 2024

Backdowns and broken promises: The super funds failing to bring gas companies into line on climate

Our new analysis reveals that most of Australia’s top 30 super funds failed to vote for greater climate action this year.

ANALYSIS

June 2024

Could major super funds already divested from Whitehaven Coal start getting back in?

Our new analysis has found that some of Australia’s largest super funds could re-invest their members’ retirement savings in Whitehaven Coal, after having already excluded this climate wrecker through policy.

Report

May 2024

The Climate Wreckers Index

The superannuation industry’s $150 billion fossil fuel fixation

Report

April 2024

Hot air: How pumped-up active ownership claims are failing our climate

Market Forces’ latest analysis shows there is no correlation between investor support for directors at major fossil fuel developers and those companies’ climate performance.

Report

October 2023

The Great Superannuation Greenwash

How Australia’s largest super funds are using members’ retirement savings to vote against climate action

Campaigns on individual funds

Are you a member of one of these super funds? Find out more and join the campaign:

HESTA Divest

Join the movement calling on HESTA to stop investing in fossil fuel companies causing climate destruction and strain on the health system.

Hostplus Divest

Hostplus invests on behalf of many young Australians working in cafes and restaurants, as well as workers in the tourism, sports, and recreation sectors, which face the brunt of climate impacts.

UniSuper Divest

While Australia’s academics, scientists and researchers work on climate change solutions, their super fund is investing their retirement savings in the companies causing the problem.

Did you know?

Australia’s biggest 30 superannuation funds have an average of

6% of members’ share investments

in a global list of 200 companies with the biggest coal, oil and gas expansion plans.
If this average were consistent across the entire super industry,

over $130 billion

of our retirement savings would be invested in this small but dangerous group of companies.

Campaign news

5 May, 2026
Woodside AGM 2026: HESTA steps up, Aware Super backslides
28 August, 2025
Community organisations deliver significant rebuke to HESTA over fossil fuel investments
22 July, 2025
AustralianSuper re-invests in Whitehaven, claims thermal coal is “important” in energy transition
22 April, 2025
Dorothy and Toto deliver brain, heart and backbone to super funds failing on climate

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