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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?

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 30 biggest super funds invest an average of 

9% of members’ share investments

in the 190 worst companies expanding coal, oil and gas.
If this average were consistent across the super industry,

over $140 billion

of Australians’ retirement savings would be invested in this dangerous group of companies.

Campaign news

25 October, 2024
17,000 strong against APA unlocking the Beetaloo gas basin
10 October, 2024
Will the super funds still holding Whitehaven Coal in 2024 vote for climate action or coal expansion?
30 July, 2024
HESTA member submits legal request for information after fund’s ineffective efforts to push for change at Woodside
28 May, 2024
Super funds invest $39 billion in fossil fuel growth

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