Monday 4 May, 2020: Westpac’s Climate Change Action Plan Update, released today, has been described as another nail in the coffin of thermal coal, by environment finance group, Market Forces. The policy commits the bank to being out of thermal coal mining by 2030,...
Julien Vincent
Responding to COVID-19
16 March 2020 Market Forces, like the rest of the world, is changing the way we operate in order to help limit the spread of COVID-19. We are trying to stay ahead of government and health authority directives and are taking steps that do this while allowing our...
Adani looking for Abbot Point investors
12 March 2020 Adani is asking investors to back the Abbot Point coal export terminal for the next seven years through a new bond. With take-or-pay contract protection now largely expired, whoever invests is placing a massive bet about the Carmichael coal project going...
Media release: Malaysian banks prop up dying coal industry, despite central bank calls to manage climate risk
New analysis uncovers Malaysian banks’ risky and dirty multi-billion-dollar coal finance 20 February 2020 Malaysian banks are the target of an international climate campaign on their proposed funding to a new Indonesian coal power station after new data revealed CIMB,...
BlackRock has a mountain to climb if it wants the moral high ground on Adani
7 February 2020 After Siemens' annual general meeting in Munich became a parade of criticism and rebuke over the company's decision to work on the Adani Carmichael coal mine, BlackRock decided to weigh in to the issue. The Financial Times reports that BlackRock...
Siemens chooses Adani over a safe climate
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Media release: Siemens decides to work on Adani Carmichael coal project
Responding to the news that Siemens has decided to continue working on the Adani Carmichael coal export project, Market Forces Executive Director Julien Vincent said: “Siemens’ appalling decision to keep working on Adani’s climate-wrecking coal mine shows...
Siemens reconsidering Adani contract!
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Shareholders fire a shot across NAB’s bow over climate failure
18 December 2019 After record levels of shareholder support for climate risk management resolutions at ANZ and Westpac, it was NAB's turn today to face the music over its failure to adequately manage climate risk. Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, NAB has...
ANZ grilled on climate inaction and secret coal plan
17 December 2019 Coal lending was on the agenda two weeks before ANZ's annual shareholder meeting in Brisbane today, as revelations hit the news that ANZ had a secret plan to slash its thermal coal mining loans by 75% (representing more than $700 million) by 2024. The...